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Iorg: ‘Ministry is difficult, but it’s not complicated’

(Photo credit: Adam Covington/Baptist Press)

Iorg: ‘Ministry is difficult, but it’s not complicated’

March 14, 2025

Henry DurandThe Christian Index In an interview with The Christian Index, Jeff Iorg, president of the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention, celebrated the…

IVF regulations a ‘wild, wild west’ despite Trump executive order

IVF regulations a ‘wild, wild west’ despite Trump executive order

March 4, 2025

Retired Mississippi missionary couple share tips for life on mission

Tom and Gloria Thurman retired from the International Mission Board in 1999. Now, they help raise up the next generation of missionaries. (Photo credit: IMB)

Retired Mississippi missionary couple share tips for life on mission

February 28, 2025

Hispanic churches, other ethnic congregations face variety of challenges since immigration crackdown

Hispanic churches, other ethnic congregations face variety of challenges since immigration crackdown

February 25, 2025

EC approves $190 million allocation budget that includes legal costs

Adam Wyatt, chairman of the Committee on Convention Finances and Stewardship and pastor of Bethel Church, Monticello, speaks to the SBC Executive Committee. (Photo credit: Van Payne/The Baptist Paper)

EC approves $190 million allocation budget that includes legal costs

February 21, 2025

Trump, pro-life leaders at
odds in recent developments
NASHVILLE (BP) — The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission released a letter Jan. 16 calling for President Trump’s action on recent issues that have brought friction between the pro-life movement and an administration historically supportive of it. Trump’s terms in the White House have been consequential for the pro-life movement, to say the least. Shortly after taking office last year, he enforced the Hyde Amendment, which prevents federal funding of abortions. He reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy. Perhaps most of all, the appointment of three pro-life Supreme Court justices in his first term led to the overturning of Roe v Wade. Last week, however, the president said conservative Republicans need to be “flexible” regarding Hyde during across-the-aisle negotiations over health care. Hyde has factored in debates on Affordable Care Act subsidies that expired last year. Conservatives, of course, didn’t like the idea, which led the White House to walk back the president’s comments. The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approved another generic abortion drug last fall. Chemical abortions account for 63 percent of all abortions, per a 2023 study by the Guttmacher Institute. This week, it was revealed that the Department of Health and Human Services quietly released tens of millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood through Title X that had been withheld since last spring as part of a move by lawmakers to defund abortion providers for at least one year. Trump told reporters he was unaware of those disbursements. Hollingsworth described the Hyde Amendment as “not up for debate.”