Truett McConnell University is facing adversities with faith and facts. Considering the recent challenges, the University Board of Trustees have wisely engaged the services of an independent investigator to gather information concerning actions or inactions by the University surrounding sexual abuse allegations.

BOGART, Ga. — In a society that too often highlights the faults of fathers, Southern Baptist author and pastor Josh Smith encourages churches this Father’s Day to empower and remind them of the gift of fatherhood.

DALLAS (BP) — The 10,599 messengers who registered for the 2025 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting this week in Dallas topped the 9,632 who registered the last time the SBC gathered here in 2018, unofficial counts show.

DALLAS — Imagine if every person in your church was sharing the gospel and discipling others — how would that change your church? Sandy Wisdom-Martin, executive director of national Woman’s Missionary Union, said that question is their “why.”

When our daughter comes home, we laugh, reminisce, eat delicious food, laugh more, make fun of each other… And then she tells us everything we have that is past its expiration date. Apparently, my beloved and I only look at the date on the milk.

WAKE FOREST, N.C. — Southeastern Seminary and Judson College are pleased to announce Rhyne Putman as professor of theology and to welcome him and his family to the Southeastern community.

DALLAS — In the Old Testament, we find these words: “God in his holy dwelling is a father to the fatherless and a champion of widows.” Psalm 68:5 (CSB). On June 22, Southern Baptists will once again have the opportunity to support retired pastors, church workers, and their widows — faithful servants who dedicated their lives to ministry.

DALLAS (BP) — Messengers to the 2025 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting approved a $190 million 2025-26 Cooperative Program allocation budget Wednesday, giving the Executive Committee a one-time $3 million special allotment for legal costs arising from investigations into its handling of sexual abuse claims.

DALLAS (BP) — In the latest attempt to abolish or defund the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, nearly 57 percent of messengers voted to keep the entity. 

DALLAS (BP) – A proposed amendment to the SBC Constitution stating the office of pastor should be held only by men was rejected by messengers, receiving approximately 60 percent of the vote, but not reaching the required two-thirds marker.

DALLAS — Messengers to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention overwhelmingly adopted resolutions of support for two time-honored tenets — the Cooperative Program and the Baptist Faith and Message.

Summer is here, and school is out. Total boredom for the grandchildren has not completely set in yet - but it's close. There has been so much rain that their outside time has been limited.

DALLAS — Memories of fishing the riverbanks and swamps in Louisiana left an impression on Tony Wolfe, executive director-treasurer of the South Carolina Baptist Convention.

DALLAS — Southern Baptist messengers to the 2025 Annual Meeting rejected an amendment Wednesday that would have required the Southern Baptist Convention to publish detailed financial information like IRS Form 990 disclosures.

DALLAS — International Mission Board President Paul Chitwood encouraged all Southern Baptists to recognize their role in missions during the IMB report at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas.

DALLAS — Clint Pressley, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, said if the SBC were a train, it would run on two rails — and both are a century old.

DALLAS — Brent Leatherwood, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, said his entity had two defunding questions on its plate as he delivered ERLC’s report on Wednesday to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas.

DALLAS — Recognizing the important connection between discipleship and the local church, Lifeway Christian Resources President and CEO Ben Mandrell pledged to assist congregations in their calling to fulfill the Great Commission.

DALLAS —Nearly 1,400 participants gathered at Midwestern Seminary’s For the Church Dallas event at the SBC Annual Meeting to hear convention leaders discuss the 100-year impact of the Southern Baptist confessional statement.

CEDARTOWN, Ga. - Shirley Irene Jackson Randall, age 85, joined her husband in heaven on Tuesday, June 10, 2025. She passed away peacefully at home surrounded by her loving family. She was married to the late Dr. Maurice Lee Randall, and they served together as missionaries with the International Mission Board in Zimbabwe, Africa, for thirty years (1971-2001).

DALLAS (BP) — “The State of the SBC” panel discussion presented by 9Marks drew a late-night crowd that filled a 1,750-seat theater at the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Dallas on Tuesday.

DALLAS (BP) — They don’t get the same hype or recognition as some of the larger congregations within the Southern Baptist Convention. Still, Mark Clifton says most churches within the SBC are small, with 200 or fewer members.

DALLAS (BP) — SBC Executive Committee President Jeff Iorg led messengers in celebrating 100 years of Cooperative Program giving on Tuesday during the afternoon session of the SBC annual meeting in Dallas.

DALLAS (BP) — In 1925, Southern Baptists faced a “percolating maelstrom of denominational uncertainty,” Executive Committee President Jeff Iorg said in his EC report to messengers to the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting on Tuesday. And in a time when solutions were needed, “courageous leaders redefined cooperation.”

DALLAS (BP) – Greg Perkins, president of the National African American Fellowship (NAAF) of about 4,000 Southern Baptist churches, reached back to the first century to encourage Southern …