Mike Stone, chair of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, has named the members of a task force to study the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission’s effectiveness. Mike Lawson, pastor of First Baptist Church in Sherman, will serve on the task force.

The Southern Baptist Convention International Mission Board is monitoring the spread of the coronavirus and has offered personnel options for redeployment, IMB President Paul Chitwood told a gathering in Fort Worth.

Market moves and minute-by-minute headlines on cable news and social media can be alarming, but David Spika, chief strategic investment officer of GuideStone, indicated volatility in the market at this point of the economic cycle would be expected.

Officers of the board of trustees of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission strongly objected to the formation of a task force to study the ERLC’s effectiveness and instructed the entity and its leadership “not to comply” with the inquiry.

The Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee will launch a task force to examine the activities of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, the convention’s public policy organization headed by Russell Moore.

The Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee voted to “disfellowship” a Midland church whose pastor is a registered sex offender.

A self-described group of “grassroots” Southern Baptists announced the formation of the Conservative Baptist Network Feb. 14.

The Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board selected Somer Nowak to fill the newly created position of prevention and response administrator.

Kevin Ezell, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board, presented a series of five-year goals for the missions agency, including more than doubling the number of Send Relief ministry centers.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments Feb. 6 over a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit against the North American Mission Board by a former executive of the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware.

Southern Baptists who recall a historic revival that swept through Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary 50 years ago say remembering what God did in the midst of one divisive period of American history should motivate believers to pray for it again.

GuideStone has released the 2020 Ministers’ Tax Guide for 2019 Returns. It includes changes based on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and the current status of minister’s housing allowance after the recent 2019 litigation.