A California pastor who helped organize a nationwide mass baptism event on Pentecost Sunday says that water baptisms and healthy local churches are necessary if revival is to sweep over cities and ...

(RNS) — The issue of women staffers who have the title of pastor in SBC churches has been up for debate repeatedly in recent years. DALLAS (RNS) — For the second year in a row, a move to bar churches ...

NewSpring Church, based in Anderson, South Carolina and considered the largest church in the state, voluntarily left the Southern Baptist Convention due to debate about women pastors. Southern ...

(RNS) — When North Carolina pastor Clint Pressley was elected as president of the Southern Baptist Convention, he hoped to calm some of the tensions that have roiled the nation’s largest Protestant ...

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.

PINEVILLE, LA — Journey Church has reached a remarkable milestone: 100 baptisms in just the first four months of 2025—a record-breaking pace in the church’s history. A major highlight came on Easter ...