Southern Seminary’s 9Marks at Southern conference looked and sounded different this year, as the seminary hosted its first-ever conference entirely in Spanish. A Feb. 27 Hispanic pastors’ conference was held in conjunction with the annual two-day 9Marks conference for pastors.

Atlanta area pastor Ernest Easley said that The Walt Disney Company is playing into the hands of Boy Scouts of America by cutting donations to BSA, giving the Scouts greater public leverage to accept gay leaders. Disney in February joined a growing list of companies who have cut financial support to BSA.

A yet-to-be-named Bible museum owned by Hobby Lobby’s Green family moved one step closer to its anticipated 2017 opening in Washington, D.C. The Museum of the Bible, a nonprofit organization, hired David Trobisch as director of the museum’s collections.

Eight years ago, the John and Mary Harper uprooted their family and moved to a spiritually dark corner of Central Asia to spread the gospel as Southern Baptist missionaries. Forced to return to the United States, Mary was given three to five years to live when ALS changed everything.

Bill Gothard has resigned from the Institute in Basic Life Principles after allegations of sexually harassing women who worked at his ministry and failing to report child abuse cases. His ministry had been a popular for thousands of Christian families.

Former pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas for 50 years, W.A. Criswell, is being honored in academic chairs at four Southern Baptist seminaries to model for new generations the verse-by-verse teaching that led thousands to Christ during his lifetime.