ERLC search: Who speaks for the SBC next?
September 3, 2025
Can anyone speak for Southern Baptists without making them mad?
Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission
Proposed SBC resolutions ready for review ahead of annual meeting
May 30, 2025
The resolutions committee released the proposed resolutions May 30 because of a bylaw change in 2023, which now requires the release at least 10 days ahead of the annual meeting. Previously, messengers received them at the meeting.
ERLC trustees gather in Nashville for routine board meeting
September 9, 2024
The board of trustees of the SBC’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission are set to meet in person Tuesday and Wednesday for the first time since that 24-hour “destabilizing … flurry of activity” in July.
SBU students focus on ‘AI literacy,’ competency, expertise
August 8, 2024
Jason Thacker, director of the Research Institute for the ERLC, will address Southwest Baptist University’s faculty and staff Aug. 12 on the challenges and opportunities of of artificial intelligence.
Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission board officers share explanation
July 23, 2024
ERLC board members learn full details of what happened with ‘unauthorized’ announcement, confirm Brent Leatherwood ‘was never terminated.’
UPDATED: ERLC announcement reversed; Leatherwood remains; trustee chair out
July 23, 2024
The executive committee of the ERLC board of trustees announced this morning (July 23) that the action taken late yesterday by then-trustee chair Kevin Smith was not authorized. The board has stated full support of Brent Leatherwood.
SBC’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission president ‘removed’
July 22, 2024
Brent Leatherwood removed as head of ERLC, trustees announce via emailed press statement.
ERLC continues to provide ‘a vital service,’ Leatherwood says in report
June 12, 2024
Brent Leatherwood, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, affirmed that his commission was doing the good work the SBC expected of them during his address at the Annual Meeting.
ERLC’s Psalm 139 Project and its ‘often overlooked’ way of protecting lives
November 27, 2023
The Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission has provided more than 85 ultrasound machines to pregnancy resource centers since 2004 through what the organization calls the Psalm 139 project.
New Mexico Baptists launching webinar series to address social, moral issues
October 21, 2023
A Southern Baptist policy manager will headline a new series of webinars from the Baptist Convention of New Mexico, offered by its Christian Life Committee.
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