While 11 of the motions made during the morning session were referred to appropriate entities for further consideration and to report back to messengers next year, two will be debated and voted on by this year’s messengers tomorrow, June 11.
Jennifer Lyell, a former vice president of Lifeway who accused a seminary professor of sexual abuse in 2018, died yesterday (June 7) at age 47 after a series of massive strokes.
In an order issued Monday, May 12, Judge William L. Campbell Jr. announced that the jury trial in the lawsuit brought by Johnny Hunt against the Southern Baptist Convention and others has been canceled.
Even as the SBC Executive Committee works through difficult legal matters, Iorg remains committed to the larger purpose of the church.
A federal judge has dismissed all but one claim in former Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny Hunt’s lawsuit against the SBC, its Executive Committee, and Guidepost Solutions.
The EC and Southern Baptists desperately needed stability. The EC’s credibility was in shambles after six years of making news for all the wrong reasons.
“I’m trying to avoid haphazard or rushed decisions. I’m more interested in methodical, systematic, real progress than I am haphazard or rushed decision-making that really doesn’t pay a benefit we need in the long run.”
While the SBC collects hundreds of millions in donations each year, very little is spent on overhead or oversight. Now, a series of lawsuits by pastors accused of abuse has left the denomination unable to pay its legal bills.
