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Sexual abuse survivor and advocate Tiffany Thigpen will not be attending this year’s Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) annual meeting that starts this Tuesday, June 10, in Dallas. She explained why in an interview with ChurchLeaders.

Jennifer Lyell, former Lifeway Christian Resources (Lifeway) vice president and Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) abuse survivor, died at the age of 47 on Saturday, June 7, following a series of “catastrophic strokes” she suffered earlier in the week.

The Southern Baptist Convention and other defendants lost an appeal in a Tennessee district court but have appealed to the Tennessee Supreme Court.

Southern Baptists have long been known as a large branch of evangelical Christianity and a dominant force in the Southern states.

On Wednesday (March 12), the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) was informed that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into whether the denomination was criminally responsible for mishandling sexual abuse allegations is closed. 

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.