INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Thousands will gather in Indianapolis June 11-12 for the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. The meeting comes at a fraught time in the nation’s largest Protestant ...

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. The fallout from a debate in the Southern Baptist Convention about women in ministry, though largely settled at the national level ...

It’s been a stubborn reality for women in the Black church: Men who are called to preach are readily accepted, but women struggle to have their call even acknowledged, much less get encouragement to ...

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) — As she prepared to preach at the evening service Tuesday (Sept. 9) at the annual session of the National Baptist Convention U.S.A. Inc., the Rev. Tracey L. Brown admitted to feeling the nerves ...

For many Black women, spirituality and religion are anchors for their lives. Studies show they are some of the most devoutly religious folks in the U.S., and that is beneficial in unexpected ways. One ...

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 ...

For 50 years, Bishop Sharon Martin has been serving in the ministry, overcoming prejudice toward women in the church and being the hands and feet of Jesus. Her life has been spent in service to others ...

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.