2024年10月28日 · The chairman of trustees — and chairman of the presidential search committee — at the IMB when Platt was elected was David Uth, pastor at First Baptist Orlando, Fla. Uth’s second in command at First Baptist Orlando was Danny De Armas, who simultaneously chaired the trustee board at the SBC North American Mission Board.

2024年11月26日 · Hegseth has multiple ties to Wilson and the various enterprises he’s founded and influences. On the “Extremely American” podcast, Wilson recently said one of his goals is to get like-minded people into positions of influence. He later told the Idaho Capital-Sun he supports Hegseth’s nomination: “I was grateful for Trump’s win and believe that it …

Two weeks after he preached a sermon calling for action to oppose the worst impulses of the incoming Trump administration, a North Carolina pastor was forced out of his prominent pulpit.. Ben Boswell, who had been senior minister at Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte nine years, technically resigned but a church leader acknowledged that resignation was forced by a hastily called vote of ...

2022年12月13日 · For some time now, Christianity has been on the decline. According to a September 2022 Pew study, people identifying as Christian have decreased from 90% of the U.S. population in 1972 to 64% in 2020.. But it’s not just researchers who are talking about this. As of Dec. 6, 2020, the hashtag “#exchristian” had 696.7 million cumulative views on TikTok and was assigned to more than 68,600 ...

An Arkansas church rocked by child sexual abuse scandals is preparing to adopt bylaws for the first time in its 132-year history, but the draft proposal would muzzle church members from speaking to reporters and nonmembers about the affairs of the church.. This unusual bylaw provision was unveiled just days before one of the church’s former ministers was formally charged with repeated sexual ...

2024年12月26日 · Divergent theological beliefs about a failed assassination of Donald Trump, a new way of connecting United Methodist pastors with their new congregations and warnings about Christian nationalism from the family of Dietrich Bonhoeffer were among the most-read Baptist News Global news stories in 2024.. Other highly read articles reported on the sexual abuse controversies involving former ...

2024年1月24日 · Ben Carson, the doctor and author who served in Trump’s cabinet as secretary of Housing and Urban Development, has been campaigning for Trump and is rumored to be up for a position in the next Trump administration should there be one.. Trump “has just been a friend of religion and of faith,” said Carson, one of the few former Trump cabinet members to back the former president, while 17 ...

2024年11月10日 · Earlier this year, Queen left the seminary’s employment and was named pastor at Friendly Avenue Baptist Church. However, he has been on administrative leave there since his indictment in federal court May 21. After his guilty plea Oct. 16, Queen reportedly refused to resign the pastorate, and the church’s bylaws require a 75% vote of the congregation to terminate a …

We were out visiting for the church, the Deacon and I, two Baptists prepared to “win the lost for Christ” on a steamy summer Sunday afternoon in Fort Worth. The Deacon was a committed soul winner, and I was a high school student, filled to the brim with evangelical zeal and adolescent testosterone, both of which can kill you.

Second-term Florida Congressman Byron Donalds doesn’t boast many legislative accomplishments, but that hasn’t kept the Black conservative from being nominated as House Speaker and being rumored as a possible Trump vice presidential pick during the campaign.. Donalds vigorously campaigned with Trump and helped him reach and win Black voters, but he didn’t land either position.