Proposed measure to enshrine a ban on women pastors in the Southern Baptist Convention failed at the SBC annual meeting in June. Despite an end to debate at national level, it persists locally. Some ...

Every year, churches across the Southern Baptist Convention honor the memory and legacy of George Liele and other African ...

DALLAS — The Southern Baptist Convention on Wednesday again spurned a constitutional ban on female pastors as the prohibition's proponents failed to move the needle on a contentious issue that has ...

There ought to be but three Christian denominations in the world,” an Episcopal bishop once said. ‘The Roman Catholics standing on one side for the authority of the church, and the Baptists standing ...

DALLAS (RNS) — About halfway through leading his first annual Southern Baptist Convention business session as SBC president, North Carolina pastor Clint Pressley seemed to wonder what he had gotten ...

Southern Baptist leader Morris Chapman, who led the nation’s largest Protestant denomination through a stable period after a major schism, died on Oct. 20. He was 84. As the longtime chief executive ...

DALLAS — Southern Baptists meeting this week in Dallas will be asked to approve resolutions calling for a legal ban on pornography and a reversal of the U.S. Supreme Court's approval of same-sex ...