A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

Southern Baptists meeting this week in Dallas will be asked to approve resolutions calling for a legal ban on pornography and reversing the U.S.

The Southern Baptist Convention is the nation's largest Protestant denomination and is holding its annual meeting in Dallas.

The decision comes from an influential faction of President Trump's base and sends a message to the White House.

In a 6-3 decision authored by Justice Clarence Thomas, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that a Texas law requiring ...

The resolution approved seeks to reverse Obergefell v. Hodges as the historic U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage. The June 10 vote by the nation’s largest Protestant ...

Oct. 20 -- Former President Carter, a longtime Sunday school teacher, is walking away from the Southern Baptists because of the church’s stance on equality for women. In an interview with the ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Southern Baptists on Wednesday condemned the use of in vitro fertilization in a proclamation that will add to the intense debates over reproductive rights raging across the U.S ...

After overwhelmingly voting to finalize the expulsion of two churches with female pastors, Southern Baptists voted on Wednesday to further expand restrictions on women in church leadership, ...

Presbyterians, Baptists and some other Protestants, by contrast, don’t have a hierarchy of bishops, and most congregations are overseen by local leaders, such as a pastor or board of elders.

Southern Baptists are the largest Protestant denomination in America. Over 15, perhaps close to 20,000 messengers will descend on Nashville. And they will vote on a series of issues, ...

Such changes in Southern Baptists’ Bible translation of choice are more than a mere denominational matter. The SBC is America’s largest Protestant denomination and one of its most conservative.