To read a quick recap of some of the latest news reports from The Baptist Paper, see below.
1. Carson-Newman University’s ministry teaches, trains local inmates to be deployed as ministers. The university’s prison ministry enters its second year this fall.
2. Former seminary professor and North Carolina pastor Matt Queen has pled guilty to making false statements to federal investigators during their investigation of sexual abuse involving the Southern Baptist Convention and its entities.
3. The title of a 2024 report from the Hartford Institute for Research summed up what clergy are saying: “I’m Exhausted All the Time.” Small wonder that about half of clergy had thought about leaving their congregation — or the ministry altogether — in recent years.
EDITOR’S NOTE — These stories were compiled by The Baptist Paper, with reporting from the Tennessee Baptist and Reflector and Religion News Service.
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