Every year’s Annual Report from the Southern Baptists contains a lot of information. But maybe one of the funniest parts of it is always the President’s Address. The previous year’s president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) gives this address to open the Annual Meeting each summer. Usually, it’s a Read more
Last month, the 2025 Annual Report of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) finally dropped. Today, let’s explore the various stories hidden between the lines of it. There’s a lot of missing stuff, some new excuses, and enough rah-rah to keep a Super Bowl halftime show busy! Shall we dance? (This Read more
If you were holding your breath waiting for pastors’ wives to finally get the compassion and care they need to stave off exhaustion and burnout, you’ll have to keep doing that. They most definitely didn’t get it from the recently-ended Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Annual Meeting. Instead, they got the Read more
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) just wrapped up its big 2025 Annual Meeting in Dallas. Its theme, “Hold Fast,” doubles a hilarious descriptor of the event—because you could all but hear the denomination’s leaders whispering nonstop: Oh god oh god just let us get through this defunding vote in one Read more
For years now, pastors’ wives have been on my emotional radar. So when I saw an intriguing note about the upcoming Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Annual Meeting, it got my attention right away! There, a “biblical counselor” plans to offer ministers’ wives up to 90 minutes of free counseling. It’s Read more
For years now, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has been desperately spin-doctoring and obfuscating their terrible metrics to look better to their flocks. But this year might represent a whole new low for them. Despite a few gains in some metrics, the overall picture couldn’t look more bleak. Today, we’ll Read more
The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) looms close, but we haven’t heard much out of the denomination’s leaders about it. We’ve heard nothing about last year’s metrics, for instance, nor much about this year’s SBC President nominees. But we have heard about one thing: The big Read more