The Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission is encouraging churches to partner with government officials to fight the spread of COVID-19, while receiving First Amendment protections as they cooperate.

When Doris Opoku and her family immigrated to the United States from Ghana in 2008, they had no idea what ministry opportunities God had in store for them.

Karen Vinyard, a longtime Woman’s Missionary Union leader in Illinois, became involved in corrections ministry while her husband was serving 13 years in prison after being convicted on drug-related charges.

Offering a “voice of healing in the name of Jesus Christ,” Mississippi Baptists asked the state legislature to replace the state flag with a design that does not include the Confederate flag.

At least three workshops during the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s 2020 general assembly featured the topic of racial justice.

During a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship general assembly in which participants assembled online, issues related to a global pandemic and racial injustice took center stage.

In a Juneteenth letter to the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary “family,” President Adam Greenway asserted “black lives matter” and bear God’s image.

The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee elected its first African American chair in a special called meeting June 16.

Laine Scales at Baylor University believes the history of a school that ceased to exist 23 years ago is worth telling because of what it reveals about changing Southern Baptist attitudes toward gender roles and social ministries.

Given the current upheaval in race relations in the United States, Vance Pitman, senior pastor of Hope Church in Las Vegas, said the Southern Baptist Convention must seize the tumultuous moment to change.

In a speech offered in lieu of his address at the denomination’s canceled annual meeting, Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear called for Southern Baptists to declare that “black lives matter.”

Tiki Broome, interim student pastor at First Baptist Church of Yazoo City, Miss., woke up on June 2 to find a racial slur scratched into the side of his car. Broome, who said he had been outspoken about racial injustice, recently received some backlash via social media.