The formation of a group whose goal is to “achieve greater clarity and consensus around historic Baptist convictions, grounded in Scripture, concerning the office of pastor and women serving in ministry” has been announced.
U.S. Navy Chaplain Robert Christian, an alumnus of both New Orleans and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminaries, was recently promoted to the rank of rear admiral (lower half).
“This is a very powerful tool,” Victor Chayasirisobhon said June 10 at an hour-long meeting of the Ethnic Research Network, held at the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting in Orlando. “This is going to save me hours and hours — if not days! — of work.
A simple invitation for community over a shared meal is the most genuine approach for sharing the hope of Jesus, Amy Hannon said during an emphasis on biblical hospitality at the Pastors’ Wives and Women in Ministry Conference June 8.
International Mission Board missionaries and staff mingled with participants, as close to 2,000 people filled tables at the IMB dinner Monday, June 8. The event was held in conjunction with the SBC annual meeting in Orlando.
Several years ago, I laid out seven considerations for Southern Baptists in the days ahead – thoughts about who we are, where we’ve been, and what we are becoming as a Convention of churches.
This proposed bylaw amendment goes beyond the BFM2000, as well as the previously submitted and declined Law/Sanchez Amendment which prohibited women from serving as “pastors of any kind.”
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