southern baptists
“It seems like they’re trying to purify the church according to their standards," Linda Barnes Popham, the pastor of Fern Creek Baptist Church, said.
The top administrative committee for the Southern Baptist Convention has elected new leaders.
Top Southern Baptists stonewalled and denigrated survivors of clergy sex abuse over almost two decades, according to a scathing investigative report issued Sunday.
The resolution calls for Southern Baptist churches to discontinue displaying the Confederate flag as a "sign of solidarity of the whole Body of Christ."
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Christians have sinned against gays by "reducing a massive human struggle to simplistic explanations," said Albert Mohler.