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Jeff Iorg to be nominated to lead SBC Executive Committee

Gateway Seminary President Jeff Iorg will be nominated as president/CEO of the SBC Executive Committee at a special called meeting in Dallas on March 21. (Photo credit: Baptist Press)

Jeff Iorg to be nominated to lead SBC Executive Committee

March 1, 2024

NASHVILLE (BP) — A special-called meeting will take place March 21 for SBC Executive Committee members to consider the nomination of Jeff Iorg as the…

Mississippi church is answer to Romanian pastor’s 30-year prayer

A medical team from Longview Heights Church, Olive Branch, works with Romanian believers to check glucose levels, blood pressure, and vision. (Photo credit: Provided)

Mississippi church is answer to Romanian pastor’s 30-year prayer

February 27, 2024

Spiritual renewal — not political outcomes — needed to heal fragmented U.S., study shows

Spiritual renewal — not political outcomes — needed to heal fragmented U.S., study shows

February 26, 2024

CP Allocation Budget total to decrease, auditors say EC financial practices remain viable

SBC Executive Committee Interim CFO Mike Bianchi and Adam Wyatt, chairman of the EC Committee on Convention Finances and Stewardship Development, answer questions at the EC meeting in Nashville on Feb. 20. (Photo credit: Brandon Porter)

CP Allocation Budget total to decrease, auditors say EC financial practices remain viable

February 23, 2024

ARITF to unveil sexual abuse prevention, response curriculum in June

Brad Eubank, SBC Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force member and pastor of First Church, Petal, discusses resources the group will make available this summer. Eubank joined other ARTIF members in a press conference at the EC meeting in Nashville on Feb. 20. (Photo credit: Brandon Porter)

ARITF to unveil sexual abuse prevention, response curriculum in June

February 22, 2024

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.”