Tag: southern baptist convention

On a hot and humid summer day, Thursday afternoon (June 26), a group of mourners gathered in a small chapel at Immanuel Nashville church to say goodbye to Jennifer Lyell.

In the Big D this week — and I do mean Dallas — the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) pushed for a national divorce from same-sex marriage.

Find out why the proposed change in Southern Baptist Convention constitution to allow women pastors in the did not receive the required two-thirds majority.

Much ink and many pixels were devoted to the SBC’s debates on women in ministry, but people looked the other way as women preached at other Baptist gatherings. If women preaching at Baptist meetings isn’t newsworthy, then neither is a debate about them.

Though openly LGBTQ affirming, Natalie Drew is a member of the Christian Reformed Church, a denomination that voted in 2022 and again in 2023 to codify its opposition to homosexual sex. But Drew, a lesbian, has no plans to leave her congregation.

Saddleback, whose case was argued by founding pastor and best-selling author Rick Warren, had been ousted for naming a woman to its pastoral team.

‘I think the one thing that surprised me more than anything was the list,’ said Slade of a recently revealed list of convicted abusers.