Even before a member of a Southern Baptist church was accused of the Georgia spa massacre, motivated, he told police, by guilt over a “sex addiction,” the Southern Baptist Convention was under ...

When I was 5 years old, I believed I could be nothing but a Southern Baptist. My friends were Southern Baptists, my family ...

Members of Houston's Second Baptist Church approved new bylaws in 2023 that canceled their vote on church business - a change that slipped by many and ran counter to their religious doctrine.

The culture war is over, and the gays and the liberals have won. Or at least this is what recent reports of changing attitudes toward gay marriage and sexuality in Southern Baptist communities have ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Is God's saving grace free to anyone who accepts Jesus, or did God predestine certain people for heaven and hell before the beginning of the world? That's a 500-year-old ...

(The Conversation) — Baptists believe that each person can have a personal relationship with God. This theology, a scholar writes, has also contributed to disagreements within the denomination since ...

Southern Baptists believe strongly in the separation of church and state. Tr ditionally, they have refused to accept government funds for the support of their schools and hospitals. But costs are up, ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — A long-serving Air Force chaplain has left the Southern Baptist Convention after the conservative denomination publicly questioned his attendance at a same-sex civil union ceremony ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Four months ago, two African-American pastors stood in a hallway of the Southern Baptist Convention's Nashville headquarters looking at a row of white faces... NASHVILLE, Tenn.

The Rev. Dr. Donte Hickman has enjoyed remarkable success in his 22 years as pastor of Southern Baptist Church in East ...

Houston-based Bible teacher Beth Moore, one of the most widely recognized evangelical women in America, has highlighted the issue of sexual abuse from her stage for years. With her thick Southern ...

Influential Second Baptist members sued to restore the congregation's ability to vote on church decisions and how its $1 ...