Texas Baptists elected an ordained female clergywoman as convention president this week for the first time ever.

In 1992, 42-year-old Kathy Manis Findley was ordained by Southern Baptists in El Paso, Texas, after members of her own congregation in Arkansas repeatedly declined to do so. The debate split Lakeshore ...

WICHITA, Kan. -- Beatrice Cunningham was 9 when she got a divine call to enter the ministry. But it wasn't until she reached 75 that she was ordained as a pastor. It happened in a historic ordination ...

CHEYENNE - Youth pastor Jeff Buscher and his wife, Kayle, both wiped away tears as they sat together at the front of Sunnyside Southern Baptist Church on Sunday. A lengthy procession of their friends ...

MASON CITY | The ordination service for Greg Gosnell, associate pastor of youth and children’s ministries at Faith Baptist Church since September 2010, will take place on Sunday, Nov. 17.

"Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry," By Beth Allison Barr, Brazos Press, 232 pages Beth Allison Barr’s new book examines the divide between the ...

The Southern Baptist Convention ousted Tuesday its second-largest congregation -- Saddleback Church, the California megachurch founded by pastor and best-selling author Rick Warren -- for having a ...

Two years ago, an Orange County megachurch took a stand that pitted it against conservative members of its denomination. It ordained three women as pastors. Now, the Southern Baptist Convention has ...

The Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday ousted its second-largest congregation — Saddleback Church, the renowned California megachurch founded by pastor and best-selling author Rick Warren — for ...