Since 2018, the Southern Baptist Convention has lost a series of high-profile leaders whose tenures ended due to controversy or misconduct. The latest to depart is Ronnie Floyd, a former megachurch pastor who resigned as president of the SBC’s Nashville-based Executive Committee in mid-October.
In episode 17 of Dangerous Dogma, Beau Underwood, Word&Way VP & senior editor, takes over the microphone to interview host Brian Kaylor about communication, religion, politics, storytelling, and more.
KCUR’s “Up To Date” interviewed Word&Way Editor-in-Chief Brian Kaylor and two pastors, Darron Edwards of United Believers Community Church in Kansas City and Christopher Dixon of West Finley Baptist Church. Listen to full segment
Clergy from around the state are joining calls for Missourians to get vaccinated. More than 200 Missouri pastors and ministers have signed a statement urging Christians to get the COVID-19 vaccination. Read full piece
More than 200 clergy in Missouri have signed up to encourage their congregations to get vaccinated. So far, 20 are clergy from Columbia. Read full piece
A diverse group of faith leaders of different Christian denominations held a virtual meeting to ask for the religious community to receive vaccinations. (Video in report includes interview with Word&Way Editor-in-Chief Brian Kaylor.) Read & watch full piece
Video report includes interview with Word&Way Editor-in-Chief Brian Kaylor. Watch full video
Tennessean op-ed by Word&Way Editor-in-Chief Brian Kaylor: Patterson needs to be recognized as the bad fruit produced by a sick tree, as Jesus warned — Matthew 7:15-20. Read full piece
Word&Way Editor Brian Kaylor joined Carol McEntyre of First Baptist Church in Columbia, Missouri, for a conversation about Christian Nationalism on the KFRU radio program “Columbia Morning with David Lile.” Listen to full segment
The highest court in Massachusetts ruled this month that a social work professor at a nondenominational Christian college is not a “minister,” meaning she may proceed with a discrimination suit against the college. Meanwhile, a Baptist university in Missouri claims a faculty member and student