James Smith Coleman was one of the most important Baptist leaders in 19th-century Kentucky and left a tremendous legacy in the Bluegrass State.

Louisiana can proceed with a law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments, according to a federal court ...

In the midst of heated debates about female pastors and the morality of in vitro fertilization, the national Southern Baptist Convention recently passed a religious liberty resolution that — in terms ...

(RNS) — Meeting in Nashville, leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee look for a way past the denomination’s current woes. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) — The fall meeting of the ...

The handwritten resolution, signed by 116 Baptist ministers from Massachusetts who called slavery “repugnant,” was thought to have been lost. By Aishvarya Kavi The Rev. John Odams, pastor of the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Rocked by controversies, dwindling numbers and internal divisions, the Southern Baptist Convention will meet for its annual meeting on June 15 under the banner: “We Are Great ...

(The Conversation) — In Southern Baptist history, rules on women and sexuality are often entwined. A scholar writes about the first congregation to be expelled from the SBC over LGBTQ+ issues SBC ...

T. B. Maston’s views on integration were controversial at his seminary. Today, they deserve a fresh hearing. In the years before the Civil War, the major evangelical denominations divided into ...

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