Laura Erlanson

DALLAS (BP) – As Southern Baptists prepare to observe the Cooperative Program’s 100th anniversary next month, a new book aims to help the celebration mean even more.

NASHVILLE (BP) – The Southern Baptist Convention and other defendants lost an appeal in a Tennessee district court but have appealed to the Tennessee Supreme Court. The case, Preston Garner et. al. v. Southern Baptist Convention et. al., regards an inquiry made by the SBC Credentials Committee in the course of following up on a confidential report made to the SBC’s abuse hotline.

DALLAS (BP) – A group of 10 former Southern Baptist Convention presidents has released a letter expressing support for the continuation of the SBC’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP) – Keith Harper, well-known Baptist historian and longtime professor at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS), died Wednesday (April 23) of lung cancer.

FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. (BP) – A church secretary in Florida has been arrested and charged with grand theft after it was discovered she had racked up more than $570,000 in personal charges on a church credit card over a period of years.

ANDERSON, S.C. (BP) – NewSpring Church, which has more than 14,000 members at 13 campuses across South Carolina, has announced its withdrawal from the Southern Baptist Convention, citing the “distress and conflict” its continued affiliation is causing.

DALLAS (BP) - El martes 25 de marzo, el Comité de la Orden del Día de la Convención Bautista del Sur publicó un programa preliminar de la reunión anual de la CBS de este año, que se celebrará en Dallas los días 10 y 11 de junio.

DALLAS (BP) – A preliminary schedule for this year’s SBC Annual Meeting in Dallas June 10-11 was released Tuesday (March 25) by the Southern Baptist Convention’s Committee on Order of Business.

HORN LAKE, Miss. (BP) – Britt Taylor, former music minister of Calvary Baptist Church in Horn Lake, Miss., near Memphis has been arrested and charged with one count of transfer of obscene material to a minor.

NASHVILLE (BP) – The U.S. Department of Justice informed Southern Baptist Convention attorneys today (March 12) that its investigation into the SBC and its entities is closed. No sexual abuse-related charges were filed.