INDIANAPOLIS — The Southern Baptist Convention made national news this week with votes on women pastors and in vitro fertilization in a wide-ranging annual meeting. During the meeting in Indianapolis, ...

The Rev. Clint Pressley is the current president of the Southern Baptist Convention, elected in June 2024 and re-elected for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Messengers raise their ballots in support of a motion during the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting on June 11, 2024, in ...

There are roughly 500 Southern Baptist churches in the Pacific Northwest, accounting for more than 44,000 members. At its annual meeting last month, the Southern Baptist Convention considered an ...

The author of dozens of books was recognized by people in the grassroots as well as in the highest echelons of American society.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Representatives from America’s 47,000-ish Southern Baptist churches met last week to discuss church ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — More than 10,000 voting representatives gathered Tuesday for the opening of the Southern Baptist Convention's two-day annual meeting, where they will vote on whether to ban ...

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 ...

The president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary went so far as to say, “I think there’s just something about the order of creation that means that God intends for the preaching voice to be ...

(The Conversation) — The recent annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention saw a number of motions related to women. The Conversation asked Susan Shaw, a gender and sexuality studies scholar ...