Lifeway Research has revealed that the Southern Baptist Convention’s total membership dropped by 3% between 2024 and 2025, but that the convention saw significant increases in both weekly church attendance and baptisms. While the convention saw a 3% drop in membership, to 12,331,954 members, Baptist Press notes: On average, nearly
Note: this article deals with child abuse. A Southern Baptist pastor has asked his congregation to write letters supporting his son-in-law, vouching for the man’s integrity and character following his arrest for possessing child sexual abuse material, according to an article in The Roys Report. Tom Johnson is the senior
CrossPolitic studio has released their much-anticipated mini documentary ‘How The SBC Got Played‘,’ which outlines how the Southern Baptist Convention, edged on and manipulated by bad faith actors and grifters, made a series of costly mistakes (particularly around their so-called sex abuse scandal) that resulted in catastrophic financial and spiritual
An SBC church who once had nine ‘women pastors’ on staff has given the ladies a new title to avoid the prohibitions against female pastors in the Southern Baptist Convention. Fielder Road Baptist Church, aka Fielder Church, is a Texas-based multi-site, multi-ethnic, and multi-lingual church that the Baptist Press has previously highlighted for
A Southern Baptist megachurch recently deemed by the SBC’s Credentials Committee to be considered in friendly cooperation with the convention because they “closely identify” with the Baptist Faith and Message, despite having a female teaching pastor, has left the denomination on its own accord. The fact that they left on
A federal judge dismissed all but one of the claims in disgraced pastor Johnny Hunt’s $100M lawsuit against his former denomination and their respective entities, leaving only his defamation charge against then-SBC president Bart Barber intact. Judge William Campbell granted motions for summary judgment in the case on Monday, ruling
Jesus uses the pen of John in Revelation 3:14-22 to rebuke the lukewarm Laodiceans, who had all the signs of church “success” but, upon spiritual examination, were “wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.” Similarly, the signs of unwieldy, biblically adrift secularism and pragmatism are all over today’s Southern Baptist Convention
As we continue to catalog the mission drift and downgrade of the SBC, along with the questionable players looking to toss a little leaven about, reformed Pastor Michael Clary shared a training manual for the North American Mission Board’s 2019 Send Philly event showing what sort of ideology that NAMB through their
In news we’re happy to hear, Jared Moore, the pastor of Homesteads Baptist Church in Crossville, TN, and author of the excellent The Lust of the Flesh, has thrown his hat in the ring and announced he’s running for Southern Baptist Convention president, revealing his plans and visions in a Credo
Lawyers representing the Southern Baptist Convention have filed an amicus brief encouraging the Supreme Court of Kentucky to rule AGAINST a verified sex abuse victim, understanding that a ruling in her favor would negatively impact them. Several years ago, Samantha Killary claimed that her father, a police officer who adopted
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