(RNS) — More than 10,000 Southern Baptist leaders, known as messengers, are meeting for the SBC's annual meeting. DALLAS (RNS) — About halfway through leading his first annual Southern Baptist ...

Attendees pray at the end of the final day of the 2025 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas on Wednesday, June 11, 2025. Juan Figueroa / ...

DALLAS — The Southern Baptist Convention on Wednesday again spurned a constitutional ban on female pastors as the prohibition's proponents failed to move the needle on a contentious issue that has ...

Delegates, called messengers, to 2025 SBC annual meeting narrowly reject proposal to abolish the denomination's public policy arm following June 11 floor debate. Convention resurrects proposed measure ...

In yet another glaring example of how some people simply can’t understand that they don’t get to impose their religious beliefs on everybody else, Dallas Southern Baptists voted overwhelmingly this ...

Like other Southern Baptists, Juan Sanchez, pastor of High Pointe Baptist Church in Austin, claimed he wanted to clarify what the denomination's statement of faith already says about women pastors.

Jennifer Lyell, a former executive for Lifeway, the SBC's publishing arm, also became known for advocating for abuse reform in the denomination after coming forward with her own account. Lyell helped ...

The Southern Baptists of Texas Convention is helping with hot meals as first responders work to clean up the damage left behind from the devastation July 4 floods in the Hill Country.