If you’re looking to brush up on your business and financial reports knowledge ahead of this year’s Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Dallas (June 10–11), the SBC has released its 2025 Book of Reports online.
New Coke was a colossal failure. In 1985, after decades as a premier global brand producing the world’s most popular soft drink, the Coca-Cola Company’s
“One moment is not going to change the entire trajectory of what we do, but it can remind us of some very important things. The beauty of Baptist life and cooperation is that everybody is autonomous … we work together because we want to.”
Randy Covington will continue as exec dir of Alaska Baptists until his originally planned retirement date of Sept. 30, 2025 — despite what was announced in March following a disagreement over the extent of autonomy a church should have.
While the Southern Baptist Convention’s Annual Church Profile has shown a surge in baptisms and rising attendance, the SBC’s 18-year membership slide continued in 2024.
States are increasingly passing laws that criminalize not only sexual abuse, but the grooming process that often precedes the abuse.
Even as the SBC Executive Committee works through difficult legal matters, Iorg remains committed to the larger purpose of the church.
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.
