Multiple proposals to clamp down on women pastors are likely to be up for consideration by the SBC during its June 9-10 ...

Thousands of Southern Baptists have voted overwhelmingly to advance a formal ban on churches with women pastors in the nation’s largest conservative evangelical denomination.

A retired pastor expressed sadness over the Southern Baptist Convention's vote to enshrine a ban on female pastors in the ...

(RNS) — ‘The evidence that the resolutions provide is very clear in terms of the kind of endorsement of the ideas of Christian nationalism that are present in the denomination,’ said Nancy Ammerman.

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

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

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

The passage of the First Amendment, ratified in 1791, was the end of a long struggle for religious freedom in America.

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, ...

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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 ...