Fifty U.S. religious leaders have signed a statement to the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) encouraging the organization to continue its current leadership and membership…
via:blackchristiannews Hundreds of Southern Baptists will arrive for Crossover Saturday in Houston the weekend leading up to the Southern Baptist Convention’s June 11-12 annual meeting. As in previous years, Crossover participants will help host block parties and special outreach events on Saturday, June 8, to share the Gospel. Read More
via:christianpost Religious leaders, including the Southern Baptist Convention’s newly elected African-American president, have spoken out against a Mississippi Baptist church that refused to host a wedding because the bride and groom are black. The Rev. Fred Luter, first African-American president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), told the Baptist Press Monday that this […]
via:christianpost A Washington, D.C.-based Baptist church once affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention has decided to sever its ties over differences regarding ordination and political matters. The leadership of Calvary Baptist Church, a 150-year-old congregation formed by abolitionists who broke away from a pro-slavery church, voted unanimously on Wednesday to disaffiliate itself from the […]
via:christianpost NEW ORLEANS – All eyes are on Fred Luter as he officially begins his term as the first black president of the Southern Baptist Convention. While many recognize Luter’s election in and of itself as a giant step forward in racial reconciliation, they say only time will tell what kind of impact his […]
via:christianpost LifeWay Christian Bookstores will be pulling the film “The Blind Side” from their shelves in response to a complaint from a Florida pastor. Pastor Rodney L. Baker of Hopeful Baptist Church of Lake City submitted a resolution to the Southern Baptist Convention, demanding that LifeWay pull the PG-13 film over its language content. Read […]
By Ed Stetzer via:christianpost This week, I am in New Orleans for the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting. This year’s gathering will be a historic one as Southern Baptists are poised to elect our first African-American convention president – Dr. Fred Luter. A denomination birthed with a racially-tinged history is now electing a descendant […]
via:christianpost America’s largest Protestant denomination, which remained predominantly white and endorsed racial segregation for over a century, is posed to elect its first African-American president, a pastor from Louisiana, at its two-day annual meeting that begins Tuesday. Even just a day before the Southern Baptist Convention’s meeting in New Orleans, La., the Rev. […]
via bcnn1.com The number of baptisms in the Southern Baptist Convention in 2010 fell by nearly 5 percent, according to the Annual Church Profile (ACP) compiled by LifeWay Christian Resources in cooperation with Baptist state conventions.
A prominent African-American pastor has announced plans to ask the Southern Baptist Convention to amend its constitution to ban churches that condone racism.
