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 ...

I’m not really religious in a formal sense, but if there’s one thing I’ve been assured about the Almighty by the nation’s largest Protestant Christian denomination, it’s that 50% of the human race has ...

Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention said Friday the nation's largest Protestant denomination is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. They also said the investigation, which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SBC pastor Rev. Linda Barnes Popham with the choir at Fern Creek Baptist Church in May 21, 2023, in Louisville, Kentucky. AP Photo ...

The Southern Baptist Convention’s top administrative body voted to cut ties with two congregations on Tuesday — an LGBTQ-friendly church in North Carolina that had itself quit the denomination decades ...

(RNS) — Bestselling author and former pastor Rick Warren made an impassioned plea for reinstatement of Saddleback Church’s affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention, after the megachurch he ...

(AP) — 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 ...

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary will offer every concentration of its Doctor of Philosophy program in a modular ...

SBC Credentials Committee reviews reports against churches and recommends disfellowshipping the churches. SBC Executive Committee decides on whether to approve those recommendations. At meeting in ...

Southern Baptists narrowly rejected a proposal Wednesday to enshrine a ban on churches with women pastors in the denomination's constitution after opponents argued it was unnecessary because the ...

The Southern Baptist Convention expelled a rural Oklahoma church from its membership Tuesday after resurfaced pictures and video show its pastor impersonating late singer Ray Charles in blackface at a ...