Liam Adams

2 weeks ago | tennessean.com | Liam Adams

Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission is the Nashville-based Southern Baptist Convention's public policy arm and has been at the center of ongoing controversy. Delegates, called messengers, at the 2025 SBC annual meeting in Dallas on June 10-11 are expected to consider potentially several measures intended to dismantle or reshape the ERLC. “But there is a difference between refinement and eradication," said 10 former SBC presidents in a May 22 letter advocating against anti-ERLC campaign.

2 weeks ago | dnj.com | Liam Adams

Ten former Southern Baptist Convention presidents have rallied to the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission’s defense in advance of a debate that yet again imperils the denomination’s public policy arm. The ERLC is the nation’s largest Protestant denomination’s most vocal agency on political and cultural issues and yet receives the lowest share of funding from the convention’s collective budget.

2 weeks ago | tennessean.com | Liam Adams

Nashville Catholic Charities one of the largest refugee resettlement nonprofits in Tennessee under its own operations, but also through independent group Tennessee Office for Refugees. Suspension of federal refugee resettlement program in January put Catholic Charities and other nonprofits into a tailspin, sending out urgent requests to donors for support.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Liam Adams

American Baptist College graduate Cyrus Wilson said he wasn’t supposed to be delivering the valedictorian address at a May 15 commencement ceremony. “I’m definitely not supposed to be here,” Wilson, who was formerly incarcerated, said at the graduation at Fifteenth Avenue Baptist Church in Nashville. “There was a time I am certain that no one would have seen this future for me.

3 weeks ago | dnj.com | Liam Adams

Nashville Catholics are rallying around their immigrant neighbors in the wake of a massive immigration enforcement operation, with a petition circulating for a fellow parishioner in detainment and the diocese advising caution for attending Mass. The petition demands the immediate release of Nashville resident Edgardo Campos, called the “heart" of his parish.