INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Thousands will gather in Indianapolis June 11-12 for the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. The meeting comes at a fraught time in the nation’s largest Protestant ...

(RNS) — The Southern Baptist Convention’s credentials committee had a problem. It had been asked to determine whether or not ...

DALLAS — The Southern Baptist Convention on Wednesday again spurned a constitutional ban on female pastors as the prohibition's proponents failed to move the needle on a contentious issue that has ...

From its towering white steeple and red-brick facade to its Sunday services filled with rousing gospel hymns and evangelistic sermons, First Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia, bears many of the ...

It’s been a stubborn reality for women in the Black church: Men who are called to preach are readily accepted, but women struggle to have their call even acknowledged, much less get encouragement to ...

Delegates, called messengers, to 2025 SBC annual meeting narrowly reject proposal to abolish the denomination's public policy arm following June 11 floor debate. Convention resurrects proposed measure ...

The pastor of an Alaska church ousted from the Southern Baptist Convention over an apparent set of beliefs on women pastors at odds with the denomination's position said the move shows real vigilance.

Attendees pray at the end of the final day of the 2025 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas on Wednesday, June 11, 2025. Juan Figueroa / ...

Southern Baptist Convention's administrative arm, the SBC Executive Committee, gathered in Nashville on Feb. 17-18, during which it disfellowshipped Anchorage church over "egalitarian" views. The SBC ...