Democrats should be focusing intensely on this question: Who are their bootleggers?

Today’s evangelicals bear little resemblance to 19th and early-20th century evangelicals in their social attitudes and aspirations.” ...

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.

Critics who say the denomination’s public policy agency no longer reflects their convictions could once again put its future up for a vote. During their annual meeting in Dallas next month, Southern ...

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

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A copy of the Ten Commandments is posted in a hallway of the Georgia Capitol on June 20, 2024. AP Photo/John Bazemore One of the ...

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

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, ...

More than 1400 Southern Baptists from The Pelican State and across the nation are set to come to Monroe for a series of ...

NPR's Rachel Martin talks with Ed Stetzer, a pastor and a professor at Wheaton College, about the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Nashville following a year marked by high-profile departures.

For several years, membership in Southern Baptist churches has been in decline. The American denomination hit its peak in 2005 with 16.6 million members, and since then, communities have seen a steady ...