Latest news: Retired pastor serving through sabbatical ministry; Supreme Court backs pro-life pregnancy centers’ rights; defamation lawsuit filed over Michael Tait stories

To read a quick recap of some of the latest news reports and other articles from The Baptist Paper this week, see below.

1. Before becoming a director of missions, and even more so while serving in that role, Rick Standard saw a need that kept surfacing among pastors, especially those in small and mid-sized churches.

2. The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously backed five faith-based pregnancy centers in New Jersey who sued the state’s former attorney general for forcing them to disclose confidential documents about their donors.

3. Wes Campbell and the musicians of the Christian band Newsboys have filed a federal lawsuit against World Vision, The Roys Report and concert promoters for an “orchestrated campaign to drive Campbell and Newsboys out of the Christian concert market.”