(RNS) — The Southern Baptist Convention’s credentials committee had a problem. It had been asked to determine whether or not to expel one of the denomination’s largest churches for violating the SBC’s ...

A San Francisco street preacher remained calm as a person, believed to be a transgender woman, pulled a gun on him after he made remarks about gender. Pastor Kevin Kihara, was delivering a sermon near ...

Terrifying video shows a preacher having a gun pointed at him from just inches away as he lectured someone he assumed to be a transgender woman, telling her, “God made men to be men.” Kevin Kihara, a ...

It’s been a stubborn reality for women in the Black church: Men who are called to preach are readily accepted, but women struggle to have their call even acknowledged, much less get encouragement to ...

Last year, the Rev. Ashley Brock Guthas didn’t see herself as the senior pastor of a church, much less a historic one that counted among its members a former president and first lady of the United ...

(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 ...

For many Black women, spirituality and religion are anchors for their lives. Studies show they are some of the most devoutly religious folks in the U.S., and that is beneficial in unexpected ways. One ...

Women preachers among early Baptists As a researcher who studies Baptist women and was also ordained by Shalom Baptist Church in Louisville in 1993, I’m deeply familiar with this history. Only a few ...