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Southern Baptists may have rejected a constitutional amendment opposing female pastors, but that does not mean they are changing their views on women’s leadership in church

The Southern Baptist Convention rejected a proposal that would explicitly state that only men could be pastors. Does that mean that the SBC is changing and becoming more accepting of women in ...
Religion News Service

Southern Baptists say no to women pastors. But what does the Bible say a pastor is?

(RNS) — The expulsion of Saddleback Church and other congregations for having women pastors led to national headlines. It’s also prompted questions about thousands of other churches where women serve ...
Los Angeles Times

Southern Baptists turn their backs on O.C.’s Saddleback Church over its female pastors

The Southern Baptist Convention on Wednesday refused to readmit Saddleback Church, rejecting appeals by the Orange County megachurch after it was ousted for having female pastors. During their annual ...
Christianity Today

Southern Baptists, Outsiders Hear Our Confessions Too

Baptist confessions have long drawn attention beyond the church. The proposal on male pastors will too. Messengers from around the country will soon gather in Indianapolis to conduct the business of ...
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Infighting in the Southern Baptist Convention shouldn't be a surprise – the denomination has been defined by such squabbles for 400 years

Concerned over the direction that some leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention have recently taken, a number of pastors in the denomination have formed the “Conservative Baptist Network.” The ...
Tennessean

Southern Baptist Convention breaks with churches over sexuality, alleged discrimination

The Southern Baptist Convention broke with two churches on Tuesday over stances on sexuality and alleged discriminatory behavior. The decisions were hastily announced at the end of a Southern Baptist ...
Pew Research Center

Religious Landscape Study

Importance of religion in one's life among members of the National Baptist Convention by belief in hell % of members of the National Baptist Convention who say religion is… ...
Time

Religion: Return of the Baptists

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 ...
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Southern Baptists may have rejected a constitutional amendment opposing female pastors, but that does not mean they are changing their views on women’s leadership in church

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 who studies Southern ...
Religion News Service

Infighting in the Southern Baptist Convention shouldn't be a surprise – the denomination has been defined by such squabbles for 400 years

(The Conversation) — Baptists believe that each person can have a personal relationship with God. This theology, a scholar writes, has also contributed to disagreements within the denomination since ...
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Religious Landscape Study

Belief in God among who believe in Heaven who are Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) % of who believe in Heaven who are Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) who say they… ...