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SBC Great Commission Resurgence Task Force files unsealed

The voices on the Aug. 11, 2009, audio recording of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Resurgence Task Force exhibit enthusiasm and excitement as well as intrigue and concern.

06/18/2025 - By Jennifer Davis Rash / The Baptist Paper

Baptist Women in Ministry reflect on SBC women

Baptist Women in Ministry met soon after the close of business on the first day of the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting.

06/13/2025 - By Calli Keener / Baptist Standard

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

SBC affirms resolution on gender, marriage and family

Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas voted to affirm all eight resolutions brought to the floor—with some debate—but with only one amendment, deemed friendly.

06/11/2025 - By Calli Keener / Baptist Standard

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

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

Clint Pressley reelected as SBC president

Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas elected a slate of officers, reelecting Clint Pressley, pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte, N.C., to a second term as president.

06/10/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

SBC panel discusses sexual abuse prevention solutions

To continue conversations addressing sexual abuse within churches, the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee sponsored a panel discussion on abuse response and prevention during the SBC annual meeting June 9 in Dallas.

06/10/2025 - By Kendall Lyons / Baptist Standard

WMU celebrates 130 years of Annie Armstrong Offering

“Missions is not a monthly meeting,” noted WMU Executive Director Sandy Wisdom-Martin, adding, “It is how we live our lives.”

06/09/2025 - By Calli Keener / Baptist Standard

Abuse survivor and former Lifeway VP Jennifer Lyell died

Jennifer Lyell, an editor and author whose promising career in Christian publishing was derailed when she accused a former Southern Baptist leader of abuse, died June 7. She was 47.

06/08/2025 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service