(RNS) — Turmoil at the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission has increased calls to disband the denomination's public policy arm, but some SBC pastors say it can and ...

The Southern Baptist Convention has voted against a proposal to abolish the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission amid criticisms over advocacy efforts and leadership. At the SBC Annual Meeting in ...

(RNS) — A group of 10 former Southern Baptist Convention presidents have weighed in on a debate over the denomination’s controversial ethics and public policy arm. In an open letter, the 10 former ...

As the Southern Baptist Convention prepares for its Annual Meeting in Dallas next month, a divide has emerged among former SBC presidents over the future of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, ...

Trustees for the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, which is the Southern Baptist Convention's public policy arm, gathered for a regularly scheduled meeting in Nashville on Sept. 10-11. Trustees ...

(RNS) — The kerfuffle over Leatherwood’s status, which played out in competing press releases from ERLC leaders, is the latest controversy for the SBC’s public policy arm. (RNS) — In a head-scratching ...

Forty years ago, the idea of seeing Roe v. Wade overturned in our lifetime was little more than a dream and a prayer. Those of us in the pro-life movement — including and especially Southern Baptists, ...

Southern Baptists didn’t enact major reforms at their annual meeting this week. They didn’t vote to shut down their long-standing public policy arm, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC).

Brent Leatherwood, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, has stepped down from office, four years after he was tasked with leading the convention's ...

Brent Leatherwood stays on to lead the Southern Baptist entity after the “Dobbs” ruling and a major denominational abuse report. The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission’s interim leader, Brent ...

Yesterday, July 31, 2025, Brent Leatherwood submitted his resignation as president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, bringing to an end nearly a decade-long relationship with the ...