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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — More than 10,000 voting representatives gathered Tuesday for the opening of the Southern Baptist Convention's two-day annual meeting, where they will vote on whether to ban ...

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 ...

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 history-making Black female preachers from across the country who are featured here have heeded the call to ministry, using their God-given talents to spread the Gospel. In the process, they are ...

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 — 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 ...

Delegates, called messengers, to 2025 SBC annual meeting narrowly reject proposal to abolish the denomination's public policy arm following June 11 floor debate. Convention resurrects proposed measure ...

Pastor Emmanuel Iren questioned married women who use their pastors' pictures as display pictures, saying pastors should not ...

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