The Southern Baptist Convention will sell its Nashville headquarters to defray abuse-related legal costs
United States RNS An investigation into how leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention have dealt with sexual abuse by clergy has cost more than $US12 million over the past three years, causing the nation’s largest Protestant denomination to put its Nashville, Tennessee, headquarters up for sale, the SBC’s Executive Committee announced on Tuesday, 17th September. […]
The future of SBC abuse reform is now in the hands of denominational committee
Indianapolis, US RNS Leaders of a volunteer taskforce charged with implementing abuse reforms in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination say they were given an impossible task. In the end, the task proved too much. Messengers vote at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, on 11th June, 2024. PICTURE: […]
Southern Baptists: Abuse reform taskforce ends its work with no names on database and no long-term plan
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports on the publication of an Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force report ahead of the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting next week…
Heads of SBC mission boards say they will not fund new abuse reform non-profit
Nashville, Tennessee, US RNS Leaders of two major Southern Baptist mission boards said they will not help fund a proposed independent non-profit meant to implement the denomination’s abuse reforms. Plans for the non-profit were announced on Monday night during a meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee. The headquarters of the Southern Baptist Convention is seen […]