Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission addresses reporters in Phoenix at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Phoenix on Tuesday, June 13, 2017. | Matt Miller
NEW YORK Stephen Stallard, leader of the Mosaic Church, a small multicultural Southern Baptist congregation in Brooklyn, called on the SBC’s Executive Committee Tuesday to “repudiate” a new report from a task force which found that the Russell Moore-led Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission is a major threat to the funding of the $15 billion Protestant Christian organization’s Cooperative Program.
“If the SBC is to be a national convention instead of a regional one, I believe this report should be repudiated by the entire executive committee. I’m pleading with you to make it clear that the members of my congregation who subscribe to the BFM 2000 are welcome in the convention,” Stallard stated in a letter that was read during Tuesday’s plenary session of the
Southern Baptists oust St. Matthews church over LGBTQ inclusion Share Updated: 5:52 PM EST Feb 23, 2021 WLKY Digital Team
TRACKING THE COVID-19 VACCINE Share Updated: 5:52 PM EST Feb 23, 2021 WLKY Digital Team The Southern Baptist Convention’s executive committee voted Tuesday to oust four of its churches one of which is in St. Matthews.St. Matthews Baptist Church was one of two churches expelled over having policies deemed to be too inclusive of LGBTQ people. We take no pleasure in recommending that a church is not in friendly cooperation with the convention,” Credentials Committee Chairman Mike Lawson said in a statement to Baptist Press. “We would like nothing more than for all our churches to be in harmony on such vital issues. But when the available information shows clearly that we are not, it is necessary to take action.The St. Matthews church lost its affiliation with the Kentucky Baptist Convention in 2018 for
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Southern Baptists divided over politics, race, LGBTQ policy
Divisions over race, politics, gender and LGBTQ issues are roiling the Southern Baptist Convention ahead of a meeting of its executive committee next week
By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer
February 20, 2021, 2:32 PM
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Jim Conrad, pastor of Towne View Baptist Church, looks at a copy of a letter from the Southern Baptist Convention s credentials committee on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, in Kennesaw, Ga. During an SBC meeting in late February, its executive committee will discuss a recommendation that Conrad s church be ousted from the SBC because it accepted LGBTQ people into its congregation. (AP Photo/Angie Wang)
Divisions about race, politics, gender and LGBTQ issues are roiling America’s largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, ahead of a meeting of its executive committee next week.
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