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ERLC presidential search committee establishes candidate profile

SEARCH UNDERWAY – Todd Howard, chairman of the search committee for the next president of Southern Baptists’ Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) in Nashville, and pastor of Watson Chapel Church in Pine Bluff, Ark., addresses fellow ERLC trustees on Sept. 14. (Photo credit: Baptist Press)

ERLC presidential search committee establishes candidate profile

September 15, 2021

NASHVILLE (BP and local reports) — Trustees of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) on Sept. 14 approved a candidate profile for…

New Orleans Seminary spared major damage from Ida

Jamie Dew

New Orleans Seminary spared major damage from Ida

September 1, 2021

Texas church, scene of worst mass shooting in Southern Baptist history, to remove building to make way for new memorial on site

REMEMBERING – Members and friends of First Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, gather for the one-year observance of the 2017 mass shooting at the Southern Baptist church. Plans are currently underway to convert the site to a 24/7 open memorial. (Photo credit: North American Mission Board)

Texas church, scene of worst mass shooting in Southern Baptist history, to remove building to make way for new memorial on site

August 26, 2021

ERLC reminds U.S. government of promises made to Afghans

HASTY EVACUATION – In a now-famous photograph, 640 Afghan civilians flee their home country in a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III designed to airlift full-size military tanks, as Taliban Islamic extremists close in on the capital city of Kabul. (Photo credit: U.S. Air Force)

ERLC reminds U.S. government of promises made to Afghans

August 18, 2021

Southern Baptist disaster relief ministry monitoring Haiti EQ

Photo credit: United States Geological Survey.

Southern Baptist disaster relief ministry monitoring Haiti EQ

August 18, 2021

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.”