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Throughout the 20th century, controversy had flared up sporadically among Southern Baptists over the nature of biblical authority and how to interpret the Bible. Until 1925 the SBC did not have a specific, formal confession of faith; whenever an issue arose it had looked to two earlier and more general baptistic confessions of faith produced in the United States: the Philadelphia Confession of ...
Widespread sexual abuse cases in Southern Baptist churches were reported by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News on February 10, 2019. The report found roughly 380 clergy, lay leaders and volunteers had faced allegations of sexual misconduct , leaving behind over 700 victims [ 1 ] since 1998.
When the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News published the 2019 exposé "Abuse of Faith," documenting how the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) spent more than 20 years covering up ...
The status of a federal investigation into a leading Southern Baptist agency’s handling of sexual abuse is unclear. But this much is clear — survivors of abuse and their advocates remain ...
The controversy complicates the already-choppy efforts by the mostly white denomination to diversify and overcome its ... Soon Southern Baptist churches will start openly supporting homosexual ...
The official name is the Southern Baptist Convention.The word Southern in "Southern Baptist Convention" stems from its 1845 organization in Augusta, Georgia, by white Baptists in the Southern United States who supported continuing the institution of slavery and split from the northern Baptists (known today as the American Baptist Churches USA), who did not support funding evangelists engaging ...
The Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday ousted churches for having a woman pastor and over abuse-related reports, solidifying the recent trend for churches and their involuntary exit from the ...
At this week's Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, the Rev. Josh Wester, of North Carolina, chairman of the denomination's Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force, said there were already ...