Scenes from the SBC Annual Meeting
A photo essay by Editor-in-Chief Brian Kaylor about what happened during the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting this week in Nashville, Tennessee, both inside and outside the convention hall.
James Forbes’s Ode to Juneteenth Calls on Americans to Embrace the Promise of Freedom
James Forbes wrote a poem on the challenges that remain 156 years after Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, to deliver the message the Civil War was over and the enslaved were free. It’s a call to all Americans to face the reality of
After Politically Charged Debate, Bishops Vote to Draft Controversial Communion Document
Members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have voted to draft a document on the Eucharist, green lighting a controversial effort championed by a group of conservative clerics who have called for denying Communion to President Joe Biden and other Catholic Democrats who support
The Revolution at the SBC Annual Meeting
After Ed Litton emerged victorious in the Southern Baptist Convention’s presidential election on Tuesday, reports and analysis quickly portrayed the news as a defeat for the denomination’s fundamentalist wing. But rather than fundamentalism being dismissed, anti-elitism was embraced.
Close Encounters of the Theological Kind
The debate about alien existence and visitation is filled with complexities, uncertainties, and hypotheses that are hard to prove or disprove. In this edition of A Public Witness we aim to convince you that if aliens seem threatening to you, there is something far scarier that you need to consider.
Southern Baptist Convention Resolutions Reflect Passion on Issues of Race, Abortion
One of the hot-button items expected to be on the agenda when Southern Baptists met for their annual meeting this week was critical race theory. But, in the end, the resolution the committee chose to bring to the floor for a vote did not mention CRT.
Southern Baptists Vote to Probe Leaders’ Sex Abuse Response
Delegates at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to create a task force to oversee an independent investigation into the denomination’s handling of sexual abuse.
5 Things to Watch for as Catholic Bishops Conference Debates Communion Ban
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ spring meeting begins Wednesday with as much interest for political observers as religious ones, as what is typically a mundane clerical confab takes up an escalating debate over President Joe Biden and Communion.
SBC Meeting Opens with Patriotism, Drops Attempt to Decry Jan. 6
During the 2021 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, speakers wrestle with issues of patriotism and the Gospel. But a planned resolution to denounce the Jan. 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol was pulled.
Ed Litton, a Pastor Known for Racial Reconciliation, is Surprise Winner for SBC President
Ed Litton, the relatively unknown senior pastor of Redemption Church in Saraland, Alabama, defeated two preeminent rivals to be elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention during a session of the SBC’s annual meeting Tuesday.