Housing allowance: ERLC, IMB, GuideStone urge court to uphold ministerial provision

WASHINGTON (BP) — Three entities of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) have called for a federal appeals court to overturn a decision invalidating the ministerial housing allowance. The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) and the International Mission Board (IMB) signed on to a friend-of-the-court brief with a diversity of religious organizations in the important church-state case before the Seventh…