Southern Baptist delegates have gathered in Orlando, Florida, for their annual meeting and they're expected to vote on a constitutional amendment to formally ban churches with women pastors.

A retired pastor expressed sadness over the Southern Baptist Convention's vote to enshrine a ban on female pastors in the faith group's constitution.

INDIANAPOLIS — Southern Baptists narrowly rejected a proposal Wednesday to enshrine a ban on churches with female pastors in the denomination’s constitution after opponents argued it was unnecessary ...

Multiple proposals to clamp down on women pastors are likely to be up for consideration by the SBC during its June 9-10 ...

Thousands of Southern Baptists overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to advance a formal ban on women pastors in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, sending a clear message that men alone should ...

The convention’s obsession with subjugating women and arguing their inherent unfitness for leadership may explain its membership decline.

There ought to be but three Christian denominations in the world,” an Episcopal bishop once said. ‘The Roman Catholics standing on one side for the authority of the church, and the Baptists standing ...

The nation's largest Protestant denomination made the first of two required votes at its 2026 annual meeting on a proposed ...

Southern Baptists meeting this week in Dallas will be asked to approve resolutions calling for a legal ban on pornography and a reversal of the U.S. Supreme Court's approval of same-sex marriage.

WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘Voting rights are being eroded,’ said President Boise Kimber of the National Baptist Convention U.S.A.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Southern Baptists on Tuesday elected a new leader who has decried a "decline and drift" within the denomination and whose supporters include an outspoken faction seeking to move ...