The leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, said on Friday that the church was under investigation by the Justice Department for sexual ...

The interim president and chief executive of the Southern Baptist Convention’s powerful executive committee resigned on Thursday over the discovery that he had falsified academic credentials on ...

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Delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting in New Orleans approved an amendment to their constitution that their churches must have “only men as any kind of pastor or elder ...

Christiana Botic for The New York Times. By Colbi Edmonds. June 13, 2023. The Southern Baptist Convention, a denomination that is often a bellwether for evangelical America, ...

The Southern Baptist Convention voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to call for the overturning of the Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage, with strategists citing the successful ...

Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times With almost 13 million church members across the United States, the Southern Baptist Convention has long been a bellwether for American evangelicalism.

“What we’re trying to do is keep the conversation alive,” Andrew Walker, an ethicist at a Southern Baptist seminary in Kentucky who wrote the resolution, told the New York Times. Members of ...

Elizabeth Dias is the national religion correspondent for The Times, writing about faith, politics and values. June 8, 2025 Southern Baptists plan to vote this week on acting to overturn Obergefell v.