Speaking at Valleydale Church in Pelham on Sunday, Southern Baptist Convention presidential candidate David L. Allen called the 42 sex abuse lawsuits against Southern Baptist entities a distraction ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS -- The Southern Baptist Convention voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to reelect Lake City native Bart Barber as its president, giving him another year to lead the nation's largest Protestant ...

Rick Warren, the founding pastor of Saddleback Church, asked delegates of the Southern Baptist Convention during its annual meeting on Tuesday to “agree to disagree” in the debate over whether the ...

Candidates for SBC president are Mike Keahbone, David Allen, Jared Moore, Bruce Frank, Dan Spencer and Clint Pressley. Five are pastors and one is a seminary professor. The questionnaire from The ...

On the first Saturday of fall, a sweating Bart Barber trekked across a weedy pasture in search of Bully Graham, the would-be patriarch of the rural Baptist pastor's fledgling cattle herd. With the ...

From its towering white steeple and red-brick facade to its Sunday services filled with rousing gospel hymns and evangelistic sermons, First Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia, bears many of the ...

Following scandals of abuse and misconduct in 2018, Southern Baptist Convention leaders showed support for women in leadership. Subsequently, more women chair SBC committees and trustee boards. Push ...

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 ...

Rick Warren, the founding pastor of Saddleback Church, asked delegates of the Southern Baptist Convention during its annual meeting on Tuesday to “agree to disagree” in the debate over whether the ...