Even as they prepare to vote on a formal ban on churches with women pastors, delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to boot one such church from its ...

Pastoral succession, megachurch wealth and family dynasties combine in a lawsuit filed against Second Baptist Church Houston ...

Southern Baptist Convention President Clint Pressley is set to be nominated for a second term as head of the United States ...

actively working among the 500 Haitian churches in the Southern Baptist Convention — at least for another four weeks. They are active ministers and members of the 3,500 Hispanic congregations ...

In Harlem, the Abyssinian Baptist Church—a Gothic historic megachurch—is a centerpiece for local communities. Rooted in a ...

It pleased me in Waverly Hall that my parsonage sat atop a hill where I could gaze down on the Baptist preacher’s home. In Metter, I was relieved that there were three Baptist churches in town ...

Two-thirds of every Southern Baptist students’ tuition is paid by the convention. “The education at Southern Baptist seminaries is affordable, as churches and good people from across the 16.5 ...

The Rev. Donte Hickman, one of the preachers marching after the police in-custody death of Freddie Gray, remembers receiving ...

North Shelby Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., celebrated six baptisms last year on Baptism Sunday, the annual Southern ...

Southern Baptist churches are called to pray for the immigrants and refugees facing “significant fear and uncertainty in these days and to extend compassion to them when possible.” “Many ...

While American organized religion is still on the decline, congregations remain remarkably resilient. A new study from ...