Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 25—When an estimated 50,000 cooperating churches in the U.S. met for the Southern Baptist Convention in Indianapolis last ...
INDIANAPOLIS — The Southern Baptist Convention made national news this week with votes on women pastors and in vitro fertilization in a wide-ranging annual meeting. During the meeting in Indianapolis, ...
Only "qualified men" can be leaders of Southern Baptist Churches. While the Southern Baptist Convention rejected an all-out constitutional ban on women pastors Wednesday at its convention in ...
The two churches in question would not be qualified to send members as voting messengers to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention.
(The Conversation) — The recent annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention saw a number of motions related to women. The Conversation asked Susan Shaw, a gender and sexuality studies scholar ...
Prominent Dallas-area congregation Park Cities Baptist Church is leaving the Southern Baptist Convention, according to a statement published on the church’s website. One factor in the church’s exit ...
Opponents argued the convention already has the power to remove churches over this issue, and the amendment will have unintended consequences, including disproportionately affecting Black Southern ...
The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., is facing a reckoning over its handling of sexual abuse. The U.S. Department of Justice announced in 2022 it was ...
Southern Baptists narrowly rejected a proposal Wednesday to enshrine a ban on churches with women pastors in their constitution after opponents argued it was unnecessary because the denomination ...