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.

06/29/2020 - By Trennis Henderson / Woman's Missionary Union

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.

06/26/2020 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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

06/26/2020 - By Eric Black / Editor

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

06/26/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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

06/19/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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

06/17/2020 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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.

06/12/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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.

06/10/2020 - By Tess Schoonhoven / Baptist Press

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.”

06/10/2020 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

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.

06/09/2020 - By Tess Schoonhoven / Baptist Press

The Southern Baptist Convention will not hold its annual meeting as it regularly does each June. But issues its members have long grappled with—including race and the roles of women—continue to be points of controversy.

06/05/2020 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

Launching an innovative ministry center in metro Detroit has been quite a rollercoaster ride for Sue Hodnett and her volunteer ministry team.

06/04/2020 - By Trennis Henderson / Woman's Missionary Union