The Southern Baptist Convention has been added as a co-defendant in a lawsuit accusing retired Texas state judge Paul Pressler of sexual abuse.

Baptists have a biblical mandate and God-given opportunity to extend “the gift of abundant friendship” to immigrants and refugees, speakers told the annual meeting of the North American Baptist Fellowship.

GuideStone Financial Resources plans to relocate in late summer 2018 to leased offices about 10 miles north of its current facility in Dallas’ Uptown district.

The North American Baptist Fellowship unanimously elected Jeremy Bell, a Western Canadian with roots in Northern Ireland, as its general secretary.

Cybersecurity and sexual abuse in the church will be among the topics addressed at GuideStone Financial Resources’ second annual Employee Benefits Summit in Dallas.

Hance Dilbeck was elected as the next executive director of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma in a unanimous vote by the convention’s board of directors Dec. 11 in Oklahoma City.

Paul Pressler, a key figure in the self-identified “conservative resurgence” in the Southern Baptist Convention, is fighting a lawsuit by a former office assistant who alleges the onetime Texas appeals court judge sexually abused him over the course of several decades.

Opinions of leaders in all areas of Southern Baptist life are solicited in an online survey studying the qualities of effective leadership by associational directors of missions.

Even in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Southern Baptist missionary Jorge Santiago has experienced the truth of Romans 8:28—that God can work all things together for good.

After a more than 140-year relationship, First Baptist Church in Jefferson City and the Tennessee Baptist Convention are breaking up over the church’s decision to call its first female senior pastor.

Baptist churches in Central Mexico continue to feel the figurative aftershocks of the earthquake that shook their region Sept. 19, but damage to facilities has not deterred congregations from offering disaster relief to their neighbors.

The Baptist Center for Ethics’ board of directors unanimously approved Mitch Randall, pastor of a Baptist General Convention of Texas-affiliated church in Oklahoma, as the Nashville-based center’s executive director.