Months after anti-ICE protesters disrupted a worship service at his Minnesota church, Pastor Jonathan Parnell stood before thousands of Southern Baptists Tuesday to open a business session of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Southern Baptist Convention has taken a decisive first step toward passing a constitutional amendment that would enshrine a ...

Inside a Mississippi church, one pastor pushed past the limits of a typical service, with supporters watching hour after hour. Matt Olson, senior pastor of FBC Sharon in Laurel, Mississippi, recently ...

When Southern Baptists gather Tuesday in Florida for their annual meeting, they'll debate for the fourth year in a row whether to formally ban churches with a woman serving in any role resembling that ...

Willy Rice, a graduate of Samford University in Birmingham, was elected Tuesday as the next Rice has been senior pastor of ...

Should Southern Baptist women be allowed to preach to their congregations or teach Scripture? The issue has been a perennial thorn for the Southern Baptist Convention, whose delegates will once again ...

Thousands of Southern Baptists overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to advance a formal ban on women pastors in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, sending a clear message that men alone should ...

The vote is the first step toward banning women from teaching scripture or preaching to churches within the nation's largest Protestant denomination.