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

Leaders of the North American Baptist Fellowship and the Baptist World Alliance, as well as leaders of Texas Baptist Women in Ministry, issued statements lamenting and decrying racial injustice in the United States.

06/04/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Advocates for abuse survivors are criticizing SBC President J.D. Greear after his church decided to hire a teaching pastor who has been accused of mishandling an abuse claim in the past and for a Summit Church policy that would allow registered sex abusers to attend worship services.

06/03/2020 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

Amid unprecedented challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as racial unrest and tumult after the recent death of an African American man in police custody, the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee offered what it hoped was a healing balm June 2 with SBC Advance.

06/03/2020 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

It wasn’t quite the celebration Dan and Chris Conrades had in mind as Crosspoint Church marked its fourth anniversary as a church replant. But they made the best of a challenging situation as church members sheltered at home and gathered online to mark the ministry milestone.

06/02/2020 - By Trennis Henderson / Woman's Missionary Union

Southern Baptist leaders lamented the death of George Floyd, an African American who died in Minneapolis after a white police officer used a knee to pin his neck to the pavement for several minutes.

06/02/2020 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press