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 ...
Texas Baptists elected an ordained female clergywoman as convention president this week for the first time ever.
During its two-day annual meeting that began on June 13, 2023, the Southern Baptist Convention reaffirmed the ouster of its largest congregation that ordained women and began a process to amend its ...
“It’s hard to find Baptists who agree on anything, except that the Devil ought to be trimmed down a little bit.” So cracked a Baptist last week at the 43rd annual meeting of the Northern Baptist ...
Messengers to the Georgia Baptist Convention’s 2025 annual meeting earlier this month voted to welcome 24 new congregations ...
(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 ...
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 ...
The election of Rev. Fred Luter as the first black president of the Southern Baptist Convention has energized members of the nation's largest Protestant denomination. The choice of Luter, a pastor in ...
The Reverend Dr. Sammie E. Jones, local host chairman, and Reverend Dr. George W. Waddles Sr., the president of the National Baptist Congress of Christian Education have announced that the National ...
Kaylor, who is also the vice-chair of Board of Trustees for American United for Separation of Church and state, said ...