NASHVILLE (BP) — The Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) has issued a formal request for Congress to defund Planned Parenthood and is asking others to join... read more

LANHAM, Md. — Despite an expected snowstorm, more than 100 people attended the third annual George Liele Missionary Breakfast at Sharon Bible Fellowship Church earlier this month. The breakfast, sponsored by the African American Fellowship (AAF) of the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware (BCM/D), is designed to introduce people to George Liele, a freed slave who became the first ordained African American Baptist pastor... read more

SEBTS Global Missions Week calls students to consider the nations By Mary Asta Mountain, SEBTS WAKE FOREST, N.C. — “We’re an inquisitive people who almost always want to know more, especially if it seems like we’re missing something,” said Chuck Lawless to open the first chapel service of Global Missions Week, an annual celebration of the Great Commission at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS)... read more

NASHVILLE (BP) — The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Executive Committee (EC) took major steps to tackle issues that have been brewing in the Convention for several years, including addressing the financial fallout from the SBC’s response to sexual abuse, introducing a new director for abuse response within the convention and responding to the call for additional financial information from entities... read more