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LIFEWAY RESEARCH: Preaching race reconciliation shows drop from 1996 survey

LIFEWAY RESEARCH: Preaching race reconciliation shows drop from 1996 survey

February 12, 2021

NASHVILLE (BP) – Pastors today are not being prompted as often to address issues of race with their congregations compared to four years ago, according…

Fighter jet vet finds deliverance, peace after being ‘trapped in a prison’

Fighter jet vet finds deliverance, peace after being ‘trapped in a prison’

February 11, 2021

New Southern Baptist missionaries commissioned

SENDING MISSIONARIES – Seth Polk (left), trustee chairman for Southern Baptists’ International Mission Board (IMB) in Richmond, Va., signs on to the virtual IMB Sending Celebration Feb. 3 from his home church, Cross Lanes Church in Cross Lanes, W.V., where he serves as lead pastor. Greeting him is IMB President Paul Chitwood (right).

New Southern Baptist missionaries commissioned

February 8, 2021

George Liele’s rich missionary legacy spotlighted with special recognition day, scholarship inaugural

Image courtesy of The Summit Church.

George Liele’s rich missionary legacy spotlighted with special recognition day, scholarship inaugural

February 4, 2021

Report finds ERLC ‘a source of significant distraction from the Great Commission work of Southern Baptists’

SBC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE – Mike Stone (at podium), Southern Baptist Executive Committee chairman at the time and chairman of the task force formed to investigate the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), addresses the committee in June 2020. Rolland Slade, also a member of the ERLC task force, was elected to succeed Stone at the June 2020 meeting and will serve as the committee’s first African American chairman. (BP photo)

Report finds ERLC ‘a source of significant distraction from the Great Commission work of Southern Baptists’

February 4, 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.”