Laura Erlanson

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.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Despite what some may think, the realm of politics is certainly a place for Christians, Sen. James Lankford said in an interview with Ethics & Religious Liberty President Brent Leatherwood.

NASHVILLE (BP) – The SBC’s Ethics & Religious Liberty has issued a formal request for Congress to defund Planned Parenthood and is asking others to join.

NASHVILLE (BP) – The SBC Executive Committee took major steps to tackle issues that have been brewing in the Convention for several years, including addressing the financial fallout from the SBC’s response to sexual abuse, introducing a new director for abuse response within the Convention and responding to the call for additional financial information from entities.

NASHVILLE (BP) – At its annual February meeting next week in Nashville, the SBC Executive Committee will continue to take action on numerous motions adopted by messengers at the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting in Indianapolis.

WASHINGTON (BP) – President Donald Trump issued an executive order Tuesday, Jan. 28, stating that “the United States … will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another. …”

LOS ANGELES (BP) – Even as Southern California wildfires continue to burn, Southern Baptists have begun early relief work.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (BP) – A federal district court in Kentucky has blocked the Biden Administration’s attempt to expand the meaning of the word “sex” in Title IX to include “gender identity.”