conservative resurgence
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ClaudetteSouthern Baptist Convention Removes Two Churches Over Women in Pastoral Leadership, Dropping More Than 57,000 Members
Dave Roberts, a retired pastor who serves in intentional interim ministries, has written an opinion column reflecting on his years in the Southern Baptist Convention, which he left...
New group the Center for Baptist Leadership aims to move Southern Baptist Convention in more conservative direction
Another new group has emerged in the contest over the Southern Baptist Convention, which the source describes as a tug-of-war between traditionalist conservatives and ultra-conservatives. The Center for...
Mark Terry Recalls Conservative Resurgence and Reforms at Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky
Most Baptist historians date the Conservative Resurgence in the Southern Baptist Convention to 1979, when messengers at the annual meeting elected conservative pastor Adrian Rogers as SBC president....
Historian Nathan Finn Traces Southern Baptist Fundamentalism and Current Convention Tensions
Nathan Finn, provost and dean of the university faculty at North Greenville University in South Carolina, has written a historical essay on fundamentalism in the Southern Baptist Convention...
Critique Claims Southern Baptist Ethics Commission Has Become Irrelevant in Washington
Nearly all U.S. Protestant denominations are declining, according to a recent commentary published on the Juicy Ecumenism website, and the decline is steeper among liberal denominations than conservative...
Politicians Have Long Spoken at Southern Baptist Annual Meetings, From Leland to Pence
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s planned address to the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting drew controversy, according to the source. Its announcement generated debate and criticism on social...
GwenCharles Stanley, Longtime Pastor of Megachurch First Baptist Atlanta, Georgia, Dies at 90
Charles Stanley, who led Atlanta megachurch First Baptist for 51 years and was a longtime leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, died Tuesday at the age of 90....
Southern Baptist Seminary President Albert Mohler Celebrates Dobbs Ruling, Says Law Should Pursue Some Women Who Seek Abortions
At the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting in Anaheim, Calif., in June, Albert Mohler Jr., president of the denomination’s flagship seminary and one of its leading theologians, was...
Southern Baptist Ethics Leader Warns of Test Over Women Pastors as Churches Ordain Women
The question of whether women may serve as pastors and preachers in churches divided the Southern Baptist Convention from the 1970s until the Conservative Resurgence settled it in...
