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(RNS) — For nearly a century, Southern Baptist churches have banded together to raise funds for mission in the US and around the world, raising more than $20 billion through their Cooperative Program. But the trust that once held the program together is fraying.

Jonathan W. Uhr, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Immunology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, who discovered how antibodies are made and developed a technique that

Jonathan W. Uhr, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Immunology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, who discovered how antibodies are made and developed a technique that

Enrollment at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary stabilized last year, after a 20-year trend of decline.

“Times have changed, and funding sources for SBC entities have changed.”

As the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee struggles to find a leader and faces attempts by other agency heads to shutter the central organizing group of the denomination, a former president says he is willing to come back and help stabilize the Nashville-based entity.

Calls for structural change are once again in the air among Southern Baptist Convention insiders, opening the door to possibilities that could significantly reshape the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.

The sale coincides with the downsizing of the ministry that began in 2019 and has resulted in nearly 75% reduction of staff and scaled-back ministries.

Glory Baptist Church in Winfield, a church plant in northwest Alabama, has seen God affirm its path with “one thing after another” falling into place, said Thomas Hyche, the church’s pastor. 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP) – An in-depth look at state and regional conventions across the Southern Baptist Convention shows a deliberate intent by state/regional leaders to work together and promote unity