🌎 SBC To Vote on Amendment Banning Women Pastors

Published: Tue, 06/13/23

June 13, 2023

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IN THE NEWS

Saddleback’s Rick Warren ramps up appeals to Southern Baptists to let church with women pastors stay

Retired pastor Rick Warren, author of the publishing phenomenon, “The Purpose Driven Life,” has been intensifying a media blitz in what he acknowledges may be a lost cause....

SBC Messengers To Vote on Constitutional Amendment Banning Women Pastors

The Executive Committee (EC) of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) decided the morning of Monday, June 12, to give messengers the opportunity to vote on whether to amend the SBC constitution to include a permanent ban on female pastors...

Three years after George Floyd’s death, faith groups quietly advance racial healing

A range of Christian groups are working separately to continue to address the often-fraught divisions along racial lines among their members and in the wider society....

As data show denominational decline, Executive Council counters with themes of abundance

Talk of scarcity and abundance permeated the first day of Executive Council’s June 12-15 meeting here, as Episcopal Church leaders reviewed denominational data showing membership decline, financial resiliency and growing challenges in matching clergy to the hundreds of Episcopal congregations in search of priests....

World-renowned arts Uni goes woke on gender

One of the world’s leading places to study art has adopted the use of woke ‘gender-neutral’ language in staff guidance. University of Arts London (UAL) has ‘cancelled’ the word “woman” and “mother” in policies on menstruation and maternity leave...

FROM FAITH ON VIEW

Young Christians to embark on Gospel mission across Europe this summer

This summer, a distinctive evangelistic project is offering young Christians the opportunity to share their faith throughout Europe. Operation Mobilisation (OM) UK is inviting Christians above the age of 18 to embark on an interrailing adventure...

Jerusalem: Christian event is disrupted by Orthodox Jews

A Christian gathering that was taking place near Jerusalem’s Western Wall was interrupted by right-wing Orthodox Jewish activists. The incident occurred during the commemoration of the World Day of Prayer for Jerusalem and the Nations....

Televangelist Pat Robertson, mobilizer of Christian voters, dead at age 93

Pat Robertson, the influential televangelist who played a significant role in mobilizing Christian conservatives in U.S. politics, passed away at the age of 93 at his home in Virginia....

COMMENTARY

Free Speech Guaranteed To Everyone At American Universities — Except Conservatives And Christians

The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) incited an activist mob to protest an event they disagreed with, then charged conservative groups for the damages. It’s not exactly breaking news that free speech on college campuses in America now depends on your political affiliation, worldview, and how you identify sexually....

Seeing God

One of the big points I make in Hunting Magic Eels is that relationship with God is more seeing than believing. The point isn't to manufacture belief in God but to see God directly....

Review of “Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America — and Found Unexpected Peace”

This book somehow escaped my radar until recently. I’m glad I ran across it! Here is a vulnerable, frank story of a journey to Christian faith and back out – by a kind of professional seldom heard from as to their faith journey – a reporter....

The End of Evangelicalism and the Possibility of Reformed Catholicism

In one sense it is not hard to understand the collapse of American evangelicalism. After all, the much missed Michael Spencer saw it all coming way back in 2009. Yet it is still worth pausing to rehearse the problems as we prepare for a fairly consequential month in our movement's history as three of our most influential denominations...

Speaking Ill of the Dead, or, Words on Pat Robertson’s Passing

While speaking ill of the dead is generally frowned upon, there are those whose passing should not blind us to the hate they spread and the harm they did. In this regard, see below for three articles in response to Pat Robertson’s death last Thursday....

GOOD NEWS

The College Valedictorian who was Voted Most Likely Not to Succeed

To say I could have been a better student in high school is a bit of an understatement. In fact, I was on the “five-year plan.” That is why I say being a senior was the best two years of my life. That was my story before coming to know Jesus at nineteen years of age....

The off-grid community hidden in an English woodland

There’s been a boom in interest in communal living in recent years. Could it be the answer to some of the crises of modernity? In our ‘Let’s live together’ series, we visit co-living communities around the world to see how they’re finding solutions to loneliness, unaffordable housing, climate change and more....

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