The U.S. Supreme Court handed down five different rulings in June that represented victories for Southern Baptist policy ...

The ERLC has been controversial in the past, in large part because the agency often weighs in on public policy and thorny ethical issues like immigration, sexuality and abortion.

As ERLC president, Leatherwood’s mandate is to focus on Christian values, rather than politics. “That won’t fly with the hardline culture warriors” in the SBC, said Hankins.

The ERLC received over $3 million from the SBC’s Cooperative Program last fiscal year, about 1.6 percent of the $191.8 million in Southern Baptist giving that was distributed to denominational ...

Tug of war among Southern Baptists over ERLC's role. Leatherwood's comments, though, were anathema to some among the SBC who have long targeted Leatherwood and the ERLC in an internal tug-of-war ...

The ERLC agenda outlined by Land and Duke covers a wide variety of issues, including sanctity of human life, health care, marriage, the homosexual agenda, religious freedom, ...

Less than 24 hours later, firing reversed. By Tuesday morning, the ERLC retracted its earlier statement and said Kevin Smith, chair of the executive committee, had resigned. "As members of the ...

The Southern Baptist Convention’s 2025 calendar commemorates July 6 as Religious Liberty Sunday, a day on which we can ...

The ERLC had launched the Caring Well Initiative and conference back in 2018 to help train churches in how to respond to survivors. The outside investigation into the SBC’s Executive Committee ...

The ERLC is among several agencies, called entities, in the Nashville-based SBC, the nation's largest Protestant denomination, that receive funding from a budget supported by church giving and ...

The ERLC has been controversial in the past, in large part because the agency often weighs in on public policy and thorny ethical issues like immigration, sexuality and abortion.