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 ...

NASHVILLE — A prominent Southern Baptist leader recently fired from a Texas seminary for responding inappropriately when women told him they were raped will not deliver the convention sermon at the ...

The Rev. Clint Pressley woke up Thursday morning praying for the Southern Baptist Convention, he told his 9,000 followers on social media site X, the former Twitter. “Pray I don’t embarrass us,” the ...

INDIANAPOLIS (RNS) — More than 11,000 Southern Baptist Church members, known as messengers, will gather in Indianapolis this week for one of the largest, and sometimes noisiest, religious meetings of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Republican Southern Baptist told the SBC-affiliated megachurch that the nation is "under attack from true Marxist socialists," whom he alleges believe in government over God. These sort of folk, ...

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 ...