Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Murmurs filled one of Gary’s oldest churches this week as members attended Bible study, tidied up, and completed their daily tasks ...

DALLAS — The Southern Baptist Convention on Wednesday again spurned a constitutional ban on female pastors as the prohibition's proponents failed to move the needle on a contentious issue that has ...

Like other Southern Baptists, Juan Sanchez, pastor of High Pointe Baptist Church in Austin, claimed he wanted to clarify what the denomination's statement of faith already says about women pastors.

DALLAS (RNS) — For the second year in a row, a move to bar churches with women pastors from the nation’s largest Protestant denomination failed. A proposed amendment to the Southern Baptist Convention ...

(RNS) — More than 10,000 Southern Baptist leaders, known as messengers, are meeting for the SBC's annual meeting. DALLAS (RNS) — About halfway through leading his first annual Southern Baptist ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Longtime pastors of two churches — one massive and one modest-sized — made their final appeals to Southern Baptists on Tuesday, asking to have their churches returned to the ...

The National Baptist Convention ordained its first woman preacher in 1965. Reverend Tracey L. Brown became the first woman to preach at a worship service during the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A.

DALLAS — Southern Baptist representatives on Wednesday fended off two efforts to move the staunchly conservative body even more sharply to the right, giving a vote of confidence to its public-policy ...

The First Baptist Church in Gastonia celebrated its 150th anniversary with a momentous leadership change, selecting Johnathan ...

To understand pastors of Cities Church, examine where they came from, how they view authority, submission, gender and punishment.

"Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry," By Beth Allison Barr, Brazos Press, 232 pages Beth Allison Barr’s new book examines the divide between the ...