EDITOR’S NOTE: This article includes reporting from Baptist Press and The Baptist Paper. NASHVILLE – The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Executive Committee (EC) lost $6,704,285 in net assets during the 2021-2022 fiscal year – a trend that auditors called “unsustainable.” “The assets have been cut in half,” said EC member Monte Shinkle, emeritus pastor of Concord Baptist Church, Jefferson City. “We dropped $6 million this past year. We have $6 million left … it doesn’t look good.” EC … [Read more...]
ARITF recommends Guidepost Solutions to build ‘Ministry Check’ database
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article includes additional reporting from Pathway staff. NASHVILLE (BP) – The Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force (ARITF) announced it has made a recommendation to the SBC Credentials Committee to utilize Guidepost Solutions in establishing and maintaining a “Ministry Check” website database for those credibly accused of sexual abuse. Contract negotiations are underway, according to ARITF Chairman Marshall Blalock. He gave the task force’s update to the SBC … [Read more...]
Saddleback Church deemed “not in friendly cooperation” with SBC
NASHVILLE (BP) — The Southern Baptist Convention's (SBC) Executive Committee affirmed a recommendation from the SBC Credentials Committee Tuesday (Feb. 21) to deem Saddleback Church as “not in friendly cooperation with the Southern Baptist Convention.” The move comes less than a year after founding pastor Rick Warren left the helm of the church and was replaced by Andy Wood and his wife, Stacie. While not co-pastors of the church, Andy serves as lead pastor of the church while Stacie … [Read more...]
Midwestern Seminary hosts panel discussion for 250th anniversary of ‘Amazing Grace’
EDITOR’S NOTE: Read more about John Newton and his classic, “Amazing Grace,” here. KANSAS CITY – In a commemorative chapel service, Midwestern Seminary hosted a panel discussion to reflect on the significance of the life, theology, and doxology of John Newton, the writer of the treasured hymn, “Amazing Grace.” President Jason Allen led the discussion, which featured church history and church music professors at Midwestern Seminary, including Thomas S. Kidd, John Mark Yeats, Michael D. … [Read more...]
ARITF meeting with SBC Credentials Committee, abuse survivors
NASHVILLE (BP) – The SBC Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force (ARITF) issued an update on Friday afternoon (Feb. 10). It’s the group’s second update of the year. The update says group members have met with leaders across the SBC, including members of the SBC’s initial Sexual Abuse Task Force. Among other actions, they report work on “evaluating current and potential resources for every level of training and education so that we may identify, revise and create the most effective and … [Read more...]
Revival fires stir again at Asbury
WILMORE, Ky. (BP) – Revival fires may be stirring again at a small college in rural Kentucky near Lexington. Services, filled with preaching, singing and personal testimonies, have been ongoing at Asbury University and Theological Seminary since Feb. 8. According to university accounts, a similar 144-hour revival broke out at the campus in 1970. Alexandra Presta, a student at Asbury wrote in The Asbury Collegian, the campus newspaper, on Feb. 8, “Peers, professors, local church … [Read more...]
‘Amazing Grace’ panel to be held at MBTS
EDITOR’S NOTE: Read more about John Newton and his classic, “Amazing Grace,” here. KANSAS CITY – A panel of musicians, church historians and theologians will discuss the impact and legacy of the hymn, “Amazing Grace” and its author, Feb. 15, at 10 at the Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (MBTS) here. 2023 marks the 250th anniversary of the song, penned by small-town preacher John Newton in 1773. It would go on to become one the most well-known songs in history. “Our hope is that … [Read more...]
Midwestern Seminary student Caylee Dugger killed in car accident
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (MBTS) – Caylee Dugger, a youth director at First Baptist Church North Kansas City and M.Div. student at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, was killed in a highway accident Thursday afternoon, Feb. 2. According to local news station Fox 4, Dugger was involved in a three-vehicle wreck and died on the scene. As her family said, she was traveling to Texas to visit her nephew when the accident occurred. Dugger was a graduate of Union University and was planning … [Read more...]
101-year-old Ky. Baptist recounts salvation story after meeting Corrie Ten Boom
by Hannah Julian/Kentucky Today LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) – Eleanor Gorin, born March 5, 1921, grew up in the first house built on Cherokee Road in Louisville and received Christ after meeting the famous Holocaust survivor Corrie Ten Boom. It was the late 1960s, in the middle of the Jesus movement, when Gorin says “the Holy Spirit jumped across the water,” all the way to Bermuda, where she and her husband were living at the time. There, Gorin became involved in a seven-person prayer … [Read more...]
ERLC trustees elect MBC’s Mullin to serve as VP, chief of staff
NASHVILLE (ERLC) – Trustees of the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) has elected Miles Mullin II to serve as the entity's next vice president and chief of staff. ERLC President Brent Leatherwood made the recommendation to the board for Mullin's appointment in a special called meeting of the board. Mullin comes to the organization after serving as a leadership development strategist in the Missouri Baptist Convention’s (MBC) church … [Read more...]
From prison to the pulpit: Midwestern Seminary student finds new life, purpose in Christ
KANSAS CITY – Having spent over a decade of time behind bars, coupled with a long history of drug abuse, Keanon Hurst is perhaps one of the last people you would expect to find on Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s campus, let alone behind a pulpit. A native of eastern Nebraska, Keanon describes himself in childhood as “the outcast who would do and say things to just get attention.” “It was obvious from a young age I was headed down the wrong path,” he said. However, it wasn’t … [Read more...]
‘It Takes a Village’: Fifteen churches pitch in to plant new congregation in Colorado
DENVER – It’s easy to picture a church planter as the lone ranger – alone in a strange city, with little support structure, just a Bible and a dream. That’s not the case for Bryson and Sarah McGuire; there are over 15 churches in their corner. Bryson McGuire was born and raised in Springfield, Mo. “I joke that, in Springfield, there’s a church and coffee shop on every corner,” he says. He soon discovered that Denver is quite the opposite. “There’s one church for every 30,000 people in … [Read more...]
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