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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Southern Baptist women demonstrating against the faith's gender role doctrine in Birmingham, Alabama, in 2019. AP Photo/Julie ...

More than 40 Southern Baptist missionaries lost their jobs in May because they refused to endorse a faith statement that opposes female pastors and says wives should "graciously submit" to the servant ...

When members voted to change the bylaws at Houston's Second Baptist Church in 2023, a single sentence that seemingly slipped by most people put the church at odds with its own faith: "Members are not ...

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 ...

At the Southern Baptist Convention's 2023 annual meeting, voting delegates faced a series of decisions related to the status of women pastors in the denomination. One major decision related to the ...

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 ...