Willie McLaurin, the interim president and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee (SBC EC), has voluntarily stepped down from his post. The resignation came after revelations of falsified credentials on his resume, which he had admitted to SBC EC leaders. McLaurin, who had claimed on his resume that
Imagine for a moment the hubris it takes to piously lecture the faithful on forgiveness and grace mere months after tarring us as selfish, un-Christlike grandma killers. To demand under the color of Christian obedience the very grace, humility, and forgiveness denied others as you cozy up to secular power
It is not unloving nor hypocritical to say that we are praying for comfort for Tim Keller’s family and church, and at the same time striving for clarity and open discussion regarding his teaching, which will endure in his absence. Those who reflexively claim it is unloving or inappropriate to
Long time Southern Baptist pastor and former SBC president Charles Stanley has passed away at age 90, according to In Touch Ministries. According to the obituary posted at Charlesstanley.com: On Tuesday, April 18, 2023, In Touch Ministries announced that beloved pastor Dr. Charles Frazier Stanley had passed away at 7:30
(Marshall Albritton at Founders Ministries) By now, everyone has heard about the mass killing at the Covenant Presbyterian Church and School in Nashville, Tennessee. On Monday, March 27, 2023, an armed woman, who was “transgender” and identified as a man, entered the school and in cold blood murdered 3 children, all
Perhaps no single individual has done as much to stunt the spiritual growth of and sear the modern American evangelical conscience than Rick Warren. With his Peter Drucker-mentored corporatization of the church, his Schuller-inspired, man-pleasing “gospel,” and his endless ability to taint every would-be solid minister from John Piper to
In the wake of The Gospel Coalition memory-holing Josh Butler’s article sexualizing Christ and the Church, Abuse Incorporated and its “expert” figurehead Rachael Denhollander jumped on the opportunity to blame Butler’s icky article on – you guessed it – John MacArthur and biblical counseling. Denhollander reminded her Twitter followers that
It is still being peddled in seemingly orthodox evangelicalism: “The opposite of homosexuality is not heterosexuality, it’s holiness.” Or plagiarizing pastors sling this line: “Do you know how I know homosexuality doesn’t send you to hell? Because heterosexuality doesn’t send you to heaven!” Consistent with the special exception in modern
The Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee followed the Credentials Committee’s recommendation to disfellowship Saddleback Church of Lake Forest, California due to the church’s ordination of women to the office of pastor, putting an end to the 18-month controversy that has raged within the convention over the Bible’s teaching versus the
The President of the SBC can’t or won’t defend biblically-ordained male headship in the church. In a podcast with Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary president Jason Allen, SBC president Bart Barber failed to offer a biblical defense for the office of pastor being reserved for men beyond “the Bible says so”
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