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Although most ordained women and most churches that ordain women left the SBC 30 years ago, a new and unlikely wind of inclusion has blown through some SBC churches in recent years.

(RNS) — The new language would add that a church ‘affirms, appoints, or employs only men as any kind of pastor or elder as qualified by Scripture.’

NEW ORLEANS -- After overwhelmingly voting to finalize the expulsion of two churches with female pastors, Southern Baptists voted on Wednesday to further expand restrictions on women in church leadership, potentially opening up hundreds of new churches to investigation and expulsions.

'This is a sad day for Southern Baptists,' says Pastor Linda Barnes Popham of a now-expelled church.

The Southern Baptist Convention formally expelled Rick Warren's Saddleback Church after he ordained women as pastors.

The new language would add that a church 'affirms, appoints, or employs only men as any kind of pastor or elder as qualified by Scripture.'

With the female-pastor debate getting the most attention, the slow work to address abuse plods on.

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Bronx Community Board 8 has rejected a resolution on affordable housing policy in New York City after the land use committee took painstaking efforts to hone the final text and bring it to a vote before the full board May 9.

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