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For the past 25 years, Southern Baptists have officially banned women pastors. That hasn’t stopped churches from having women serve in that role.

Summers are often a time when congregations send out people to far off missions work. The state’s Southern Baptists envisioned something closer to home.

Just hours after the Southern Baptist Convention's (SBC) Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) announced that it had removed Brent Leatherwood from his position as president, the ERLC retracted their press release.

Brent Leatherwood was removed just hours after he provided Baptist Press comments regarding President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 presidential election.

Brent Leatherwood, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), drew criticism for praising President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 presidential election. Leatherwood called it “a selfless act.”

Former members of the The Village Church Denton spoke with “The Bodies Behind The Bus” podcast to discuss how Matt Chandler's father, Steve Chandler, who previously confessed to child sex abuse, was hired as a custodian at TVCD in 2007. 

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.

Pastor Mike Law of Arlington Baptist Church in Arlington, Virginia, urged Southern Baptists not to leave the nation’s largest protestant denomination after his amendment to the SBC's constitution failed to be ratified at the annual meeting on Wednesday (June 12).