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‘We are hoping that there is some kind of alternative plan to keep the church going, to keep the justice and peace programs going, to keep our advocacy work going,’ said Steven Nabieu Rogers, executive director of the Africa Faith and Justice Network.

In a sermon on Sunday (June 30), Pastor Andy Stanley of North Point Community Church criticized the Southern Baptist Convention's (SBC) removal of Rick Warren's Saddleback Church from the denomination for ordaining women as pastors.

In a July 1 post titled, “I Don’t Have an LGBTQ Neighbor—and Neither Do You,” Dr. Rosaria Butterfield called it delusional to describe people according to nonbiblical labels that imply “a different category of person.”

Making the movie "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" has been a “dream come true” for Dallas Jenkins, who co-wrote and directs the upcoming film. Jenkins is probably best-known for creating the series, “The Chosen,” and the first trailer for his new Christmas movie dropped Monday, July 1.

A Lubbock County prosecutor in Texas argued in a hearing on Monday that former Southern Baptist youth pastor Luke Cunningham had a history of preying on teenage girls in different churches. The first allegations against him date back to 2013. 

Islamic extremists in northeastern Nigeria released a video early last week threatening to kill a kidnapped Christian pastor if they did not receive a large ransom payment, according to local reports.

‘With a simple service at the Church Center that will include everyone via livestream, we can care for God’s creation by reducing our collective carbon footprint,’ Bishop Sean Rowe said in an announcement.

On Monday, the denomination also passed a resolution denouncing Christian Zionism.