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Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission addresses reporters in Phoenix at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Phoenix on Tuesday, June 13, 2017. | Matt Miller NEW YORK — Stephen Stallard, leader of the Mosaic Church, a small multicultural Southern Baptist congregation in Brooklyn, called on the SBC’s Executive Committee Tuesday to “repudiate” a new report from a task force which found that the Russell Moore-led Ethics & Religious Libert...

Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission addresses reporters in Phoenix at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Phoenix on Tuesday, June 13, 2017. | Matt Miller NEW YORK — Stephen Stallard, leader of the Mosaic Church, a small multicultural Southern Baptist congregation in Brooklyn, called on the SBC’s Executive Committee Tuesday to “repudiate” a new report from a task force which found that the Russell Moore-led Ethics & Religious Libert...

Arkansas Baptists surpass 2020 budget, send extra $1 million to IMB By Scott Barkley By: Scott Barkley February 17, 2021 Arkansas Baptists gave a record amount through the Cooperative Program in 2020, exceeding the convention’s $21 million budget as well as its Lottie Moon Christmas Offering goal. Altogether, Arkansas Baptists gave more than $10 million for international missions. Arkansas State Baptist Convention (ASBC) Executive Director Sonny Tucker shared the news in a video call wi...

IMB missionaries share COVID’s impact on South Asia By Lonnie Wilkey By: Lonnie Wilkey February 10, 2021 The three missionaries are strategy leaders in South Asia. “All of the same restrictions and challenges that churches are feeling on this side of the world, we are also facing in South Asia,” said Evert Swenson*. He shared that the real impact of COVID in South Asia may never be known. The vast majority of people in South Asia will never be tested, he continued. “There will never...

Southern Baptists prepare to send 33 missionaries in virtual celebration By Catherine Finch By: Catherine Finch February 3, 2021 On February 3, the International Mission Board celebrated the appointment of 33 missionaries being sent to the nations in a virtual Sending Celebration streamed on imb.org, Facebook and through the IMB: Advance the Kingdom app. Approved by IMB trustees, the missionaries represent 12 states and will serve in eight of IMB’s nine affinities. The event was streamed ...

Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, speaks at the MLK50 conference in Memphis, Tennessee, April 3, 2018. | ERLC/Karen McCutcheon Nearly two years after a motion to defund the Southern Baptist Convention’s Russell Moore-led Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission was rejected by messengers, a new report from a task force commissioned to study the denomination’s public policy arm has found it to be a major threat to the funding of the $15 billion Protestant Ch...

So. Baptist policy group cited for distracting from Great Commission Tuesday, February 2, 2021  |  Steve Jordahl (OneNewsNow.com) Spanish A prominent Southern Baptist pastor isnt surprised that a year-long examination into the recent actions of the denominations public policy group has found those actions are a "significant distraction" to the spreading of the gospel of Christ. A task force commissioned by the leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention a year ago yesterday filed its...

Ed Litton is the senior pastor of Redemption Church in Saraland, Ala. | Facebook/Redemption Church The Southern Baptist Convention’s first and only black president, Fred Luter, has nominated Alabama Pastor Ed Litton to become the denomination’s next president, setting up a brewing ideological clash on race with prominent candidate and seminary head Albert Mohler. “I have known Ed Litton for over 20 years. Our relationship started when we preached for each other as part of the SBC Racial R...

Georgia Pastor Mike Stone to run for So. Baptist presidency JavaScript in your web browser. Please Thursday, January 14, 2021 | Coronavirus → Georgia Pastor Mike Stone to run for So. Baptist presidency Georgia Pastor Mike Stone to run for So. Baptist presidency Mike Stone | Photo: Courtesy of Mike Stone Georgia Pastor Mike Stone is a candidate to be president of the Southern Baptist Convention, according to Florida Pastor Tom Ascol, who believes it is vital the denomination be led by a past...

Australia Announces Multi-Million Dollar Investment to Boost Defence Capabilities December 31, 2020 Updated: December 31, 2020 The Australian federal government has announced two significant investments to boost the Australian Defence Force (ADF)’s capabilities in the lead-up to 2021: the expansion of its air force’s Poseidon aircraft fleet and an upgrade of the navy’s Collins-class submarine fleet. On Dec. 30, Defence minister Linda Reynolds released the plan to acquire t...