The Southern Baptist Convention voted today in favor of a constitutional amendment to clarify and tighten its stance against women pastors. The constitutional amendment proposed by the Rev. Albert ...

Thousands of Southern Baptists overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to advance a formal ban on women pastors in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, sending a clear message that men alone should ...

This Baptist tradition is sorely needed among 21st century Christians, especially among Baptists both on the political right ...

The nation's largest Protestant denomination made the first of two required votes at its 2026 annual meeting on a proposed constitutional amendment.

(RNS) — ‘The evidence that the resolutions provide is very clear in terms of the kind of endorsement of the ideas of ...

The Southern Baptist Convention elected a president who questioned its abuse crisis. Survivors say they saw it coming.

At my first gathering of Baptists in decades, I found something I didn’t know I was missing: testimony. It had been more than ...

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The vote at the Southern Baptist Convention raising alarms about in vitro fertilization began with two conservatives at a seminary in Kentucky. By Ruth Graham Ruth Graham, who writes about religion, ...

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 ...

Why was the persecution of Baptists more intense in Virginia than in other colonies? How did that persecution lead to ...