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Joseph Adams nominee for BGCT first vice president

Joseph Adams, pastor of First Baptist Church in Hughes Springs and Texas Baptists’ incumbent second vice president, will be nominated for first vice president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.

06/20/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Christ for the Nations denounces alum’s ‘hateful actions’

Vance Boelter allegedly killed state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and wounded two others. Evidence suggests he might have been motivated by radical opposition to abortion and a distorted belief in violence as an extension of spiritual warfare.

06/17/2025 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

Obituary: Larry Johnson

Larry Johnson, former missionary to Peru and Mexico, died April 28. He was 90.

06/17/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

Churches targeted in Russian-occupied Ukraine

Authorities in the Russian-occupied Luhansk region of Ukraine raided an unregistered Baptist church during a Pentecost Sunday worship service, an Oslo-based news service focused on international human rights and religious freedom reported.

06/13/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Effort to compel greater SBC transparency fails

Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting messengers approved a new business and financial plan for convention entities, rejecting an amendment that would have required a level of financial transparency comparable to IRS Form 990 disclosures.

06/12/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Amendment barring women pastors falls short again

Once again, a constitutional amendment barring any church with a female pastor from the Southern Baptist Convention failed to reach the required two-thirds threshold of approval at the SBC annual meeting.

06/11/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Connect360: Converts, Believers and Disciples

Lesson 3 in the Connect360 unit “DiscipleMaking: Patterns of Discipleship and Evangelism for the Contemporary Church focuses on 1 Corinthians 16:15-18 and Acts 18:1-8; 11:22-26.

06/11/2025 - By GC2 Press Staff

Southern Baptists defeat motion to abolish the ERLC

Southern Baptists defeated a motion to do away with the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, the Southern Baptist Convention’s moral concerns and public policy agency.

06/11/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Christian musician Michael Tait admits to ‘double life’

Days after an investigation revealed allegations of sexual assault against Christian musician Michael Tait, the former Newsboys frontman publicly admitted to abusing cocaine and alcohol and touching men “in an unwanted sensual way.”

06/11/2025 - By Kathryn Post / Religion News Service

Obituary: Ebbie Cullen Smith

Ebbie Cullen Smith, Christian ethicist and Baptist missionary, died June 2. He was 93.

06/11/2025 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

Southern Baptists commission 58 new IMB missionaries

Southern Baptists celebrated 58 newly appointed International Mission Board missionaries during the opening session of the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting.

06/11/2025 - By Chris Doyle / Baptist Press

Lyell deposition revealed details of alleged abuse

In early April, Jennifer Lyell, a former Christian publishing executive, sat for a deposition in a defamation lawsuit filed by her once mentor and professor David Sills.

06/11/2025 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service