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Another North Texas pastor has stepped down amid “events and circumstances.” Cross Timbers Church announced the resignation of senior pastor Josiah Anthony on Sunday. 

As video footage of the fatal police shooting of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman who lived in Springfield, Illinois, circulates online, many viewers are memorializing her near-final words: “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus.”

The church court stripped the Rev. Thomas Jay Oord, of Nampa, Idaho, of his preaching credentials and expelled him from membership in the 2.5 million-member global denomination.

Turmoil at the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission has increased calls to disband the denomination's public policy arm, but some SBC pastors say it can and should be saved.

“It got to my heart,” said Joseph Green, a sprinter from Guam.

In a statement given to Baptist Press, Kevin Smith, former ERLC board chair, said that he was "convinced...that we had a consensus to remove Brent Leatherwood as the president of the ERLC."

Almost four years after Jerry Falwell Jr. resigned as Liberty University’s president, the university announced Friday (July 26) that the its Board of Trustees and Falwell have reached a settlement agreement in regards to their pending lawsuits.

On Thursday (July 25), Gateway Church released a statement informing the public that James Morris, the son of Robert Morris, has resigned from his position at the church. James Morris' wife, Bridgette, has also resigned.