The Latest Breaking News from Bart Barber

If Trump’s AI Jesus depiction isn’t a red line for his Christian supporters, is anything?

IN FOCUS: Trump pushes an already-fragile alliance of conservative Catholics and evangelicals to the breaking point, Alex Woodward reports

The Independent UK · Apr 14

Southern Baptist leader resigns from top administrative post for lying on his resume about schooling

Willie McLaurin, a Tennessee pastor who served as chief executive of the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee, has resigned

The Independent UK · Aug 17, 2023

Impassioned appeals by ousted churches spotlight Southern Baptists' stance against women pastors

Longtime pastors of two churches have made their final appeals to Southern Baptists, asking for their churches to be let back into the denomination after being ousted for having women pastors

The Independent UK · Jun 13, 2023

New SBC President commits to move sex abuse reforms forward

Bart Barber, the newly elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention, is vowing to expedite sex abuse reforms in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination

The Independent UK · Jun 15, 2022

Southern Baptist Convention in Anaheim approves resolutions designed to fight sex abuse

ANAHEIM, Calif. — More than 8,000 members of the Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to take action to stem a sexual abuse scandal that has stunned members and caused rifts within the largest Protestant denomination in America.

Los Angeles Times · Jun 15, 2022

Texas pastor Bart Barber elected Southern Baptist president

The Southern Baptist Convention has elected a new president — Texas pastor Bart Barber

The Independent UK · Jun 15, 2022

North Texas pastor among candidates for next president of Southern Baptist Convention

DALLAS — Members of the Southern Baptist Convention, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, will have an important decision to make at their annual meeting this week: who to elect as their next president.

Tribune News Service · Jun 13, 2022

Southern Baptists face push for public list of sex abusers

A blistering report on the Southern Baptist Convention’s mishandling of sex abuse allegations is raising the prospect that the denomination, for the first time, will create a publicly accessible database of pastors known to be abusers

The Independent UK · May 23, 2022