INDIANAPOLIS (RNS) — More than 11,000 Southern Baptist Church members, known as messengers, will gather in Indianapolis this week for one of the largest, and sometimes noisiest, religious meetings of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This week in Indianapolis, 61% of Southern Baptist Churches voted to exclude women from serving in pastoral leadership. The vote ...

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 ...

Critics say Second Baptist isn't living up to its democratic ideals. Can it still be a Southern Baptist church?

Pastor Craig Carlisle is expected to be nominated for the position of first vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention ...

Conservatives were “inches from losing the Southern Baptist Convention” before the “conservative resurgence,” Al Mohler told ...

SBC Credentials Committee reviews reports against churches and recommends disfellowshipping the churches. SBC Executive Committee decides on whether to approve those recommendations. At meeting in ...

The Southern Baptist Convention expelled a rural Oklahoma church from its membership Tuesday after resurfaced pictures and video show its pastor impersonating late singer Ray Charles in blackface at a ...

Former Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines died on Friday. Services were held Sunday at Bellevue Baptist ...