Church by the Glades senior pastor David Hughes is entering into a unique collaboration with First Baptist Church of Fort Lauderdale (FBCFL), taking over the role of the senior pastor while also retaining his current job, making him the overseer of two separate congregations. For years, Church by the Glades
Brian Houston stared intently as Crown Prosecutor Gareth Harrison summarized his case against the former Hillsong Global Senior Pastor on Friday, delivering his closing submissions and then resting his case. The trial ended months ago, and this was the last time for Harrison to plead his case before Magistrate Gareth
Three weeks after megachurch Southern Baptist pastor Michael Catt announced on social media that he was entering palliative care following a difficult cancer diagnosis, his church announced he has passed away. He was 71. Last month Catt chose to discontinue any further cancer treatment after a doctor found a tumor
Fresh off the disfellowship of Saddleback church, Southern Baptist messengers voted yesterday to amend the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 to clarify language surrounding women in the ministry, barring them from holding the office of pastor, elder, or deacon. The amendment crystallizes the new position and removes much of the
In a historic win for conservative Southern Baptists that echoes the conservative resurgence 40 years earlier, messengers at the 2023 Annual Meeting approved a motion to amend Article 6 of the Baptist Faith and Message 2000, clarifying the roles of women and clearly and unambiguously barring them from holding any
In light of the decision of the Southern Baptist Convention to expel Saddleback Church from the denomination for having women pastrixes (because there’s no such thing as a woman pastor), First Baptist Church of Gainesville in Gainesville, GA, has announced they are cutting all ties with the SBC, preemptively making
It’s official. Despite Rick Warren making a 3-minute appeal to the convention before the final votes were cast- a nasty and tragically problematic speech that resulted in him getting cut off when he went over his time, nearly 12,000 messengers spoke and voted to uphold the decision to disfellowship Saddleback
In an act of self-immolation and self-hatred, messengers gathered at the 2023 SBC Annual Meeting voted against resolutions that would have insisted on more financial transparency from Southern Baptist entities, ensuring more dark winters of hidden budgets and unaccounted spending from a leadership class hellbent on keeping their financial practices
As Southern Baptist messengers ready to get their first peek at the multi-million dollar Ministry Check website, courtesy of the Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force (ARITF), it’s worth pointing out that it was a garbage website before a recent update, and it’s a garbage website now. According to ARITF Chairman Marshall
Rick Warren made a final appeal yesterday at the 2023 Southern Baptist Convention that Saddleback church not be disfellowshipped for having women pastors, in contravention to the Baptist Faith and Message 2000. But with an earlier vote on Resolution Six crystalizing language that would forbid women from being able to assume
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