Southern Baptists will have the chance to vote on a proposal this week that would change the Nashville-based Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) constitution to formally ban women in the denomination ...

After decades as America's most famous Sunday school teacher, Jimmy Carter decided to cut the symbolic ties binding him to the Southern Baptist Convention. The former president remained active at ...

At their annual meeting in New Orleans this week, Southern Baptists doubled down on their crusade against female clergy. “Messengers” (delegates) of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination ...

In 2000, after decades as America's most famous Sunday school teacher, Jimmy Carter decided to cut the symbolic ties binding him to the Southern Baptist Convention. The former president remained ...

A proposed amendment to the Southern Baptist Convention's constitution aims to prohibit churches with women pastors. This amendment follows a dispute initiated by a Virginia pastor who challenged the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pastor Andy Wood and his wife, Stacie, outside Saddleback Church in Lake Forest. She was recently named a teaching pastor and ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A measure to ban women from holding the title of pastor in Southern Baptist churches failed Wednesday despite widespread support. The vote at the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Even as they prepare to vote on a formal ban on churches with women pastors, delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to boot one ...

The Rev. Rick Warren has delivered thousands of messages asking for a spiritual response during his 42 years as founding pastor of Saddleback Church in Orange County, California. But few of his ...