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Clergy burnout is a growing concern in polarized churches. A summit offers coping strategies

Burnout and deteriorating mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression are affecting religious leaders at a worrisome pace

The Independent UK

Commentary: What is the Southern Baptists’ problem with women?

At their annual meeting in New Orleans last week, Southern Baptists doubled down on their crusade against female clergy. “Messengers” (delegates) of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination ratified the expulsion of two congregations — one of them Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California — for condoning the ordination of women.

Los Angeles Times

Southern Baptist Convention votes to expel two churches with female pastors – a religion scholar explains how far back these battles go

During its two-day annual meeting that began on June 13, 2023, the Southern Baptist Convention reaffirmed the ouster of its largest congregation that ordained women and began a process to amend its constitution to ensure its church membership “does not affirm, appoint or employ a woman as a pastor of…

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US Southern Baptist Convention upholds expulsion of churches over female pastors

California-based Saddleback megachurch and Fern Creek Baptist church, a smaller congregation in Kentucky, were both expelled

The Guardian - US

US Southern Baptists reject two churches over women pastors

The denomination’s annual convention affirms stance maintaining the role of pastor is exclusively for men.

Al Jazeera

Saddleback Church loses appeal over ouster from Southern Baptist Convention

In a vote by more than 12,000 delegates at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting, Saddleback Church has lost its appeal of being expelled from the convention over having women in the role of pastors; it was announced Wednesday morning.

The Orange County Register

Southern Baptists refuse to let Saddleback Church back into the denomination for women pastors

The Southern Baptist Convention has refused to welcome Saddleback Church back into its fold

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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

Saddleback's Rick Warren ramps up appeals to Southern Baptists to let church with women pastors stay

Retired pastor Rick Warren, author of “The Purpose Driven Life,” is intensifying a media blitz in what he acknowledges may be a lost cause

The Independent UK

In a last-ditch effort, longtime Southern Baptist churches expelled for women pastors fight to stay

Two Southern Baptist churches ousted for having women pastors will be appealing that decision at the Southern Baptist Convention's upcoming annual meeting

The Independent UK

Saddleback Church appealing its ouster from the Southern Baptists on issue of women pastors

The Southern Baptist Convention says that Saddleback Church is appealing its ouster from the denomination for having women pastors on staff

The Independent UK

Saddleback Church doubles down on support for female pastors

Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, was one of five churches expelled by the Southern Baptist Convention for having women pastors on staff

The Independent UK

'A very dangerous course': What Saddleback Church ouster means for Southern Baptists

Last week the Southern Baptist Convention ousted Saddleback Church, one of its largest and highest-profile member churches, from its ranks. The reason? Because after the Orange County megachurch ordained three women as associate pastors, it named Stacie Wood, wife of the church's senior pastor, Andy Wood, a teaching pastor.

Los Angeles Times

Christian right's radicalization worsens

Showily booting the famous Saddleback Church is the latest example of why the church can't keep young people around

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The Guardian - US

Southern Baptists expel Saddleback megachurch over female pastor

Evangelical group says church ‘not in friendly cooperation with the convention’ following appointment of Stacie Wood

The Independent UK

Southern Baptists oust Saddleback Church over woman pastor

The Southern Baptist Convention has ousted its second-largest church — Saddleback Church — for having a woman pastor

The Independent UK

New Saddleback pastor sees women clergy in church's future

Last month, Andy Wood took the reins of California-based Saddleback Church from founding pastor Rick Warren, a bestselling author and influential figure in evangelical Christianity

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Southern Baptists agree to keep list of accused sex abusers

The vote on sex-abuse reforms, just weeks after the release of a report on the long-simmering scandal, fell short of what some abuse survivors in Southern Baptist churches sought.

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The Orange County Register

Pastor Rick Warren announces successor to lead Saddleback Church into the future

Pastor Rick Warren, who ministers weekly to a global audience of more than 40,000 people and has offered spiritual guidance to multiple American presidents, announced on Thursday the successor who will lead the Saddleback Church he founded nearly 43 years ago in Orange County, California.

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