(RNS) — In a departure from resolutions dating to 2006, the SBC’s new statement does not mention a path to legal status for ...

The Southern Baptist Convention voted today in favor of a constitutional amendment to clarify and tighten its stance against ...

As the Southern Baptist Convention wrapped up its annual business meeting this week in Orlando, it passed a resolution that ...

Thousands of Southern Baptists overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to advance a formal ban on women pastors in the nation’s ...

Immigration is one issue among several that delegates of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination will consider, but ...

A contingent seeking to push the denomination to the right secured its first major victory through the election of Willy Rice ...

The newly elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention denies that there was ever a "systematic" cover-up of sexual ...

The convention’s obsession with subjugating women and arguing their inherent unfitness for leadership may explain its ...

The amendment passed easily at the denomination’s annual gathering. It needs approval again next year to enter the ...

Southern Baptists, who have worked for years to root out any congregations with female senior pastors, will consider an ...

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 ...

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