A quiet Sunday sermon has turned into a high-stakes legal battle in Northern Ireland. According to Fox News, Clive Johnston, ...

A week after she went on National Public Radio to urge the Southern Baptist Convention to officially accept women as pastors, the Rev. Kristen Muse received an unusual letter at her church office. The ...

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 ...

Cathleen Falsani, former religion reporter at the Chicago Tribune, used to say her job was cultural translator — converting the language of religious people for secular publication, and then ...

There are roughly 500 Southern Baptist churches in the Pacific Northwest, accounting for more than 44,000 members. At its annual meeting last month, the Southern Baptist Convention considered an ...

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 ...

(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 ...

The Southern Baptist Convention rejected a proposal that would explicitly state that only men could be pastors. Does that mean that the SBC is changing and becoming more accepting of women in ...

Valerie Bridgeman knows good preaching. Her dad was a pastor, and for 45 years now, she too has been behind the pulpit. Currently, she serves as dean and vice president for academic affairs at ...

Only "qualified men" can be leaders of Southern Baptist Churches. While the Southern Baptist Convention rejected an all-out constitutional ban on women pastors Wednesday at its convention in ...