Suzii Paynter, who has led the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship five years as the organization’s executive coordinator, announced July 19 her plans to retire from the role.

J.D. Greear has big intentions as he begins his presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention. He hopes to help the denomination step away from partisan politics and lean more on its bedrock mission of preaching the gospel and saving souls.

A data breach occurred at the International Mission Board that may have exposed personal information of current and former employees, volunteers and applicants.

The International Mission Board knew about allegations against Mark Aderholt more than 10 years before he was arrested  on charges he sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl, according to police records, emails and an internal investigation from the organization.

Mark Aderholt, a former employee of the South Carolina Baptist Convention and International Mission Board missionary, has been charged in Texas with sexually assaulting a teenager 21 years ago.

The SBC Executive Committee reports nearly twice as many messengers attended the 2018 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas when compared to the previous year.

Unless “serious wrongs” against former President Paige Patterson are “righted,” a Houston oil and gas executive and more than two dozen other donors warned their gifts to Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary will cease—including estate gifts that could total “tens of millions of dollars.”

Churches who disagree on substantive issues find common ground in criticizing the results of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s Illumination Project, in particular the changes to the CBF hiring policy regarding LGBT individuals.

Newly elected Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear addressed topics ranging from the #MeToo crisis to politics and evangelicals in a recent interview with NPR, one of his first since taking the role.

Many wonder how the Illumination Project will affect the future of CBF. That future will be worked out at the local level as each congregation decides for itself whether to remain connected to CBF. Congregations will need time to consider all the ramifications of their decision.

The #MeToo Movement brought to light issues of sexual abuse the church should have addressed long ago, the leader of a workshop at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship general assembly insisted.

Christians in the United States have allowed other groups to define their faith, and that gives room for misunderstanding and misrepresentation, leaders of a workshop at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship general assembly said.