Christian News

The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee (EC) voted June 2 to revise previously recommended budgets in order to fund recommendations made by the Sexual Abuse Task Force (SATF).

After more than four decades, Rick Warren, the pastor of one of the nation’s largest and most influential churches, is ready to step down. And he has named a young couple to take his place.

Tulsa pastor Deron Spoo was visiting church members at the hospital when lockdown procedures began. It was only after he made it to his car and turned on the radio that he learned of the gunman.

Another woman has come forward with her own story of abuse in connection with Pastor John B. Lowe II. She says she was married to Lowe’s son, Jeremiah Lowe, for four years, during which time he was violent, abusive and even beat one of her dogs to death.

In an Executive Committee meeting, Joe Knott expressed that he is “terrified” at the thought of the SBC implementing policies “to protect children or women,” policies he believes will leave the SBC legally exposed.

During a spirited discussion Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” regarding America’s epidemic of mass shootings, cohosts Tara Setmayer and Whoopi Goldberg decried how some Christians twist Bible passages to support their beliefs about guns and slavery.

Missouri pastor Matthew Dedmon, 47, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Joe Newburn, 57. Dedmon believed that Newburn was engaged in an extramarital affair with his wife. 

Mississippi pastor Adam Wyatt has announced plans to nominate fellow Mississippi pastor Brad Eubank, who is a sexual abuse survivor, to serve in the role of SBC first vice president.