Southern Baptist Convention President Willy Rice has announced that his church in Florida will host a special abuse prevention training event next year.

This year, Summerville Baptist Church in Summerville, S.C., is celebrating its 130th anniversary. Cooperation has been a cornerstone of Southern Baptist life since the convention’s inception. The ...

Willy Rice says pastors must "step up" on abortion, marriage, gender identity and immigration, arguing these political issues are deeply theological.

The Southern Baptist Convention’s annual membership decline continues at a precipitous rate, though at a moment of newer shifts in U.S. religious attendance overall. The SBC is now at 12.3 million ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Southern Baptist Convention will fight some of the same high-profile battles with a new cast of characters, some of whom have ...

In under 48 hours, the head of the staunchly conservative public-policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention rankled fellow Baptists by applauding President Joe Biden’s “selfless act” of withdrawing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Attendees hold up their ballots while voting on a motion during the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, Tuesday, ...

Latest annual census of Southern Baptist Convention statistics, the annual church profile, is released just weeks before the 2025 SBC annual meeting in Dallas. The Nashville-based denomination had 259 ...

Southern Baptist Convention President Willy Rice has proposed amending the Baptist Faith & Message in response to what he considers cultural confusion over gender and marriage.

All ecclesiastical revolutions eventually run out of steam. New concerns emerge, and different leaders come to the fore. It is too early to tell whether the election of Frank Page as president of the ...