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Baptist leaders react to Chauvin guilty verdict

Baptist leaders in Texas and around the country offered their prayers and comments in response to the verdict of former police officer Derek Chauvin as guilty on all counts in the death of George Floyd.

04/21/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

SBC annual meeting changes venues within Nashville

The 2021 SBC annual meeting will move from the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center to the Music City Center in downtown Nashville June 15-16, the SBC Executive Committee announced April 15.

04/19/2021 - By George Schroeder / Baptist Press

Journal article explores views of Truett and Criswell on racism

A Southern Baptist academic journal examines the “lost legacies” of George W. Truett and W.A. Criswell regarding matters of race and racism in the Southern Baptist Convention.

04/09/2021 - By Alex Sibley / Southwestern Seminary

Anthony Dockery nominee for SBC 1st vice president

California pastor Anthony Dockery will be nominated for first vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention at the 2021 SBC annual meeting in Nashville in June.

04/07/2021 - By George Schroeder / Baptist Press

Medina to be nominated for SBC 2nd vice president

Houston pastor Ramón Medina will be nominated for second vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention at the 2021 SBC annual meeting in Nashville in June.

03/29/2021 - By Baptist Press Staff

Florida WMU leader reflects on life lessons amid upheaval

Irma Moss vividly remembers five or six Communist soldiers invading her family’s home in Cuba and whisking her father off to jail in the wake of the Cuban Revolution more than 60 years ago.

03/29/2021 - By Trennis Henderson / Woman's Missionary Union

Black fellowship to seminary presidents: Help defuse tensions

The National African American Fellowship of the Southern Baptist Convention issued a statement asking presidents of SBC seminaries to take steps to help defuse current racial tensions within the convention.

03/25/2021 - By George Schroeder / Baptist Press

New doubts over Southern Baptists’ limits on women’s roles

Among women belonging to churches affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, many have questioned the faith’s gender-role doctrine and more recently urged a stronger response to disclosures of sexual abuse perpetrated by some SBC clergy.

03/24/2021 - By David Crary / Associated Press

WMU names Texas Baptists to National Acteens Panel

Texas Baptists from Kingsville and Garland are among the three young women national Woman’s Missionary Union named to this year’s National Acteens Panel.

03/23/2021 - By Julie Walters / Woman's Missionary Union

Residential drug recovery program has Baptist support

Pastor Larry White, a board member of Renewal Ranch, knows how important it is for the church to invest in drug abuse prevention and recovery programs.

03/23/2021 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

Georgia church condemns ‘wicked’ actions of member

Elders at Crabapple First Baptist Church condemned both the “extreme and wicked” actions of a church member who has been charged with killing eight people in a series of shootings, calling them a direct contradiction of his professed faith in Christ.

03/22/2021 - By Scott Barkley / Baptist Press

Mississippi pastor Durbin nominee for SBC 2nd vice president

Dusty Durbin, pastor of Big Level Baptist Church in Wiggins, Miss., will be nominated for second vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention.

03/19/2021 - By Scott Barkley / Baptist Press