Lambert noted that in 2012, after discussions of whether to drop the regional part of the name, “Southern,” since the ...

The Rev. Clint Pressley woke up Thursday morning praying for the Southern Baptist Convention, he told his 9,000 followers on social media site X, the former Twitter. “Pray I don’t embarrass us,” the ...

A former Southern Baptist pastor and seminary professor won’t serve jail time after lying to federal investigators in the first and potentially only felony conviction to emerge from an abuse-related ...

The two churches in question would not be qualified to send members as voting messengers to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention.

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 ...

DALLAS (RNS) — About halfway through leading his first annual Southern Baptist Convention business session as SBC president, North Carolina pastor Clint Pressley seemed to wonder what he had gotten ...

There are roughly 500 Southern Baptist churches in the Pacific Northwest, accounting for more than 44,000 members. At its annual meeting last month, the Southern Baptist Convention considered an ...

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 ...

The Rev. Clint Pressley is the current president of the Southern Baptist Convention, elected in June 2024 and re-elected for ...

These Baptist leaders believe women cannot hold positions of authority over men and that means they shouldn’t preach, teach men, or serve as pastor. The president of the Southern Baptist Theological ...