Pastors and Public Servants: Lead Your Neighbor as Yourself

Posted on Oct 16, 2024 in Bible, Black Church, church, Church and State, Church Attendance, Church Buildings, Church Finances, church growth, Church Health, Church Leadership, Church Planting, Church Safety, coronavirus, covid-19, Ideas, Leadership, Old Testament, pandemic, Pastors, politics, preaching

As a pastor, I’ve found one of the main difficulties in leading faithfully and living as good neighbors is that we can’t always choose our neighbors or the context and circumstances in which we lead and live. And in a time of tense divisiveness, global conflicts, natural disasters, and other complex crises, this sense of Read more…

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SBC to Sell Nashville Headquarters to Cover Cost of Abuse Cases

Posted on Sep 19, 2024 in Abuse, Church Finances, Legal Issues, Nashville TN, Southern Baptists

An investigation into how leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) have dealt with sexual abuse by clergy has cost more than $12 million over the past three years, causing the nation’s largest Protestant denomination to put its Nashville headquarters up for sale, the SBC’s Executive Committee announced on Tuesday.  The expenditures, which include $3 Read more…

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