(RNS) — During last month’s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, debates about if women can serve as pastors dominated the business sessions and national news coverage. But at multiple Baptist ...

(RNS) — More than 10,000 local church messengers are expected at the SBC's annual meeting in Dallas next week — where they'll debate women pastors, deal with growing legal fees and decide the future ...

Cooperative Program giving reported for March by Kentucky Baptists came in at $1,752,431. That is slightly below last year’s ...

Christians have engaged in passionate debates over the meaning of the resurrection. Baptists may be distinct in that they ...

The Southern Baptists Convention has wrapped with votes on banning churches with women pastors and opposing IVF reproductive practices plus revisiting reforms proposed to handle sex abuse claims. It's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Democrats need alliances between Baptists and bootleggers. So do Republicans, but right now, they have plenty of those alliances, ...

Southern Baptists narrowly rejected a proposal Wednesday to enshrine a ban on churches with women pastors in their constitution after opponents argued it was unnecessary because the denomination ...

The Nicaraguan government is ramping up its persecution of Baptist and other religious organizations and restricting the use ...

Fifty years ago, speakers at the first congress of the Baptist World Alliance pounded the rostrum in London’s massive, red brick Royal Albert Hall, predicted that the Alliance’s next meeting in London ...

“It’s hard to find Baptists who agree on anything, except that the Devil ought to be trimmed down a little bit.” So cracked a Baptist last week at the 43rd annual meeting of the Northern Baptist ...

There is an old story policy analysts like to tell about liquor laws. In the American South, two groups reliably showed up at ...