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 ...

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 ...

His wife, in the next room, could be heard telling him this hurt her. He asked incredulously, “Don’t you want to sleep with ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — More than 10,000 voting representatives gathered Tuesday for the opening of the Southern Baptist Convention's two-day annual meeting, where they will vote on whether to ban ...

Last week, the Southern Baptist Convention voted during a plenary session to disfellowship six of its nearly 50,000 member churches. One was ousted due to its “lack of intent to cooperate in resolving ...

Domestic violence does not stop at the doors of the church. Studies show that rates of intimate partner violence among Christians are roughly similar to those in the general population. Nearly half of ...

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.

DALLAS — Southern Baptist representatives on Wednesday fended off two efforts to move the staunchly conservative body even more sharply to the right, giving a vote of confidence to its public-policy ...

Pastor Emmanuel Iren questioned married women who use their pastors' pictures as display pictures, saying pastors should not ...