Laura Erlanson

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP) – Keith Harper, well-known Baptist historian and longtime professor at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS), died Wednesday (April 23) of lung cancer.

FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. (BP) – A church secretary in Florida has been arrested and charged with grand theft after it was discovered she had racked up more than $570,000 in personal charges on a church credit card over a period of years.

ANDERSON, S.C. (BP) – NewSpring Church, which has more than 14,000 members at 13 campuses across South Carolina, has announced its withdrawal from the Southern Baptist Convention, citing the “distress and conflict” its continued affiliation is causing.

DALLAS (BP) - El martes 25 de marzo, el Comité de la Orden del Día de la Convención Bautista del Sur publicó un programa preliminar de la reunión anual de la CBS de este año, que se celebrará en Dallas los días 10 y 11 de junio.

DALLAS (BP) – A preliminary schedule for this year’s SBC Annual Meeting in Dallas June 10-11 was released Tuesday (March 25) by the Southern Baptist Convention’s Committee on Order of Business.

HORN LAKE, Miss. (BP) – Britt Taylor, former music minister of Calvary Baptist Church in Horn Lake, Miss., near Memphis has been arrested and charged with one count of transfer of obscene material to a minor.

NASHVILLE (BP) – The U.S. Department of Justice informed Southern Baptist Convention attorneys today (March 12) that its investigation into the SBC and its entities is closed. No sexual abuse-related charges were filed.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Despite what some may think, the realm of politics is certainly a place for Christians, Sen. James Lankford said in an interview with Ethics & Religious Liberty President Brent Leatherwood.

NASHVILLE (BP) – The SBC’s Ethics & Religious Liberty has issued a formal request for Congress to defund Planned Parenthood and is asking others to join.

NASHVILLE (BP) – The SBC Executive Committee took major steps to tackle issues that have been brewing in the Convention for several years, including addressing the financial fallout from the SBC’s response to sexual abuse, introducing a new director for abuse response within the Convention and responding to the call for additional financial information from entities.