Even though only around 1% of pastors leave the pulpit each year, of those who do, around a third of them cite burnout and conflict with their church as their reason for doing so, according to a new Lifeway research study into four Protestant denominations (Assemblies of God, Church of
As SBC congregations grapple with the realization that they have many churches with women pastors and that prominent denominational leaders want to keep it that way, Lifeway Christian Resources, the convention’s publishing arm, continues to advocate for the former, doing what it can to insert a little egalitarianism into everything
Lifeway Christian Resources, once primarily known as the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board, has morphed into a controversial behemoth in the Christian publishing world. A purveyor of spiritual strychnine and peddler of outright heresy, their portfolio includes Heavenly Tourism, Omen Interpretation, New Age mysticism, Anti-Trinitarianism, Word-Faith Theology, and good old fashioned
Former Southern Baptist Theological Seminary professor David Sills has filed suit against the SBC and 11 other high-profile personalities, including current SBC President Bart Barber, former president Ed Litton, Albert Mohler, Jennifer Lyell (the woman who accused him of sexual abuse) and others. Sills is requesting a trial by jury,
According to a new Lifeway Research Poll, most Christians say they’d prefer if their church votes the same way they do and have the same political identity; results that are hardly surprising given the current climate we live in. The research found that “Half of U.S. Protestant churchgoers (50%) say they’d prefer
(Christian Headlines) A large majority of evangelicals describe legal immigration as “helpful” to the United States, according to a new Lifeway Research survey that also found that evangelicals support a balanced approach to immigration reform. The poll, sponsored by Evangelical Immigration Table and World Relief, found that 83 percent of
Former LifeWay CEO Thom Rainer has started a new bookstore, selling the same blasphemous trash and prosperity-gospel heresy his old organization did before running it into the ground. Originally designed as the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board and commissioned to create Sunday School material, LifeWay Christian Resources, led by Rainer,
According to Lifeway President Ben Mandrell,” Last week the @Lifeway VBS Spark Studios soundtrack hit the No. 1 spot on @AppleMusic” for the Top 100 Children’s Music Albums chart last week, including the 63rd spot for all genre’s. He went on to say “We’re talking about *all* kids albums here;
Christine Caine is one of Lifeway’s most prized possession. She’s the golden goose-one of the famed ‘Lifeway Women’ who have her own landing page, where the publishing arm of the Southern Baptist Convention promotes her relentlessly, along with a gaggle of other women. In fact, the ratio of women authors
The Spring 2022 edition of LifeWay’s “Bible Studies for Life” curriculum for senior adults was written by a man who explicitly denies the Baptist Faith and Message’s view of the roles of men and women and is not even a Southern Baptist, being one of the pastors at Mariners Church
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