Critics who say the denomination’s public policy agency no longer reflects their convictions could once again put its future up for a vote. During their annual meeting in Dallas next month, Southern ...

Multiple proposals to clamp down on women pastors are likely to be up for consideration by the SBC during its June 9-10 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A copy of the Ten Commandments is posted in a hallway of the Georgia Capitol on June 20, 2024. AP Photo/John Bazemore One of the ...

A retired pastor expressed sadness over the Southern Baptist Convention's vote to enshrine a ban on female pastors in the faith group's constitution.

The vote at the Southern Baptist Convention raising alarms about in vitro fertilization began with two conservatives at a seminary in Kentucky. By Ruth Graham Ruth Graham, who writes about religion, ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 1400 Southern Baptists from The Pelican State and across the nation are set to come to Monroe for a series of ...

For several years, membership in Southern Baptist churches has been in decline. The American denomination hit its peak in 2005 with 16.6 million members, and since then, communities have seen a steady ...

Louisiana can proceed with a law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments, according to a federal court decision on Feb. 20, 2026. The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals voted that it ...