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Texas megachurch Pastor Jack Graham has officially endorsed former pastor and seminary professor David Allen for president of the Southern Baptist Convention.

NASHVILLE (BP) — Four recommendations released today are designed to “prioritize and emphasize the authority of messengers in defining the boundaries of our cooperation while clarifying and refining our structure,”

A group tasked with studying ways to increase cooperation among a fractious Southern Baptist Convention has proposed four recommendations to be considered over the next year.

Texas megachurch Pastor Jack Graham has officially endorsed former pastor and seminary professor David Allen for president of the Southern Baptist Convention.

There is a growing trend among Southern Baptist churches to adopt an elder-based model over the traditional congregational model.

To participate in our interview by Zoom, Barber had to travel away from his North Texas farm. This is unlike any of the modern SBC presidents before him, who all came from the comforts of large churches in big cities.

Gateway Baptist Theological Seminary has announced that a new nominee for president as its current leader is set to take a new position with the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee.

The field expanded again April 2 with an announcement by Bruce Frank, pastor of Biltmore Baptist Church in metro Asheville, N.C.

Institutional reform isn’t happening.

President Joe Biden is facing backlash from Southern Baptists, other religious conservatives and the Donald Trump campaign for proclaiming March 31 — which corresponds with Easter Sunday this year —