Southern Baptist Convention Happening in Dallas This Week

Southern Baptist Convention happening in Dallas this week

The Southern Baptist Convention, the country’s largest religious conference, is happening in Dallas this week.

Southern Baptists plan to vote this week on effort to overturn gay marriage

In a move that has sparked significant attention, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, is set to vote at its annual meeting in Dallas this week on a resolution aimed at overturning Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. This effort, reported […]

Dockery leads slate of new EC officers • Biblical Recorder

DALLAS (BP) — On the day before Southern Baptists convene, Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Executive Committee (EC) members elected new leaders and passed several recommendations for final approval by messengers. Tony Dockery, senior pastor of St. Stephen Missionary Baptist Church in La Puente, Calif., was the lone nominee for the chair position. He was elected vice chair in 2023, when Philip Robertson, pastor of Philadelphia Baptist Church in…