American young people report huge gaps between what matters to them and what appears to matter to the church 

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American young people report huge gaps between what matters to them and what appears to matter to the church 

Young people in America do not believe churches care about the issues that are important to them — by double-digit disparities — according to a new national survey released today.

Southern Seminary and Asbury Seminary work with noted anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ legal group to claim federal vaccine mandate intrudes on ‘personal health decisions’

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Southern Seminary and Asbury Seminary work with noted anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ legal group to claim federal vaccine mandate intrudes on ‘personal health decisions’

A Southern Baptist Convention seminary and a Wesleyan seminary in Kentucky are jointly challenging the Biden administration’s federal mandate on COVID-19 vaccination by claiming a religious liberty violation.

Texas Baptists ‘affirm’ women while making gender an article of faith

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Texas Baptists ‘affirm’ women while making gender an article of faith

The Baptist General Convention of Texas has “affirmed” women as contributors to God’s work while also adopting a new faith statement that — mixed in with core historic Baptist beliefs — says “gender is a gift from God who creates humankind male and female in the divine image and likeness” and that “biblical marriage (is) one man and one woman in a covenant relationship with the Lord and with one another.”

Conservative Baptist Network launches attack on James Merritt for saying something nice about his son

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Conservative Baptist Network launches attack on James Merritt for saying something nice about his son

One of the groups aiming to take the Southern Baptist Convention in a more conservative direction continues to sound the alarm about liberalism in the nation’s largest non-Catholic Christian denomination and now has attacked one of the icons of the last “conservative resurgence” in the SBC because his son is gay.