More than two decades after the Southern Baptist Convention - the country’s second-largest faith group - apologized to African-Americans for its active defense of slavery in the 1800s, its flagship ...

With an abortion case now before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Southern Baptist Convention of June 2022 encouraged its members to pray for the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that made ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Rocked by controversies, dwindling numbers and internal divisions, the Southern Baptist Convention will meet for its annual meeting on June 15 under the banner: “We Are Great ...

The importance of remembering Baptist history and heritage is a fundamental purpose of the Baptist Heritage Revival Society.

Rev. Fred Luter, pastor of the Franklin Ave. Baptist Church, delivers a sermon during Sunday Services at the Church in New Orleans. AP NEW ORLEANS — The Southern Baptist Convention voted Tuesday to ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Concerned over the direction that some leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention have recently taken, a number of pastors in the denomination have formed the “Conservative Baptist ...

A worship session at the 2025 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting on June 10, 2025, in Dallas. AP Photo/Richard W. Rodriguez The Southern Baptist Convention has lost 3.6 million members over ...

(The Conversation) — In Southern Baptist history, rules on women and sexuality are often entwined. A scholar writes about the first congregation to be expelled from the SBC over LGBTQ+ issues SBC ...

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Roy Talbert is not a Baptist, and he doesn’t live in Georgetown. Yet both topics are the subject of his new book. “I have fallen in love with Georgetown County,” said the Florence County native and ...

(The Conversation) — Baptists believe that each person can have a personal relationship with God. This theology, a scholar writes, has also contributed to disagreements within the denomination since ...