Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Democrats need alliances between Baptists and bootleggers. So do Republicans, but right now, they have plenty of those alliances, ...

The Southern Baptists Convention has wrapped with votes on banning churches with women pastors and opposing IVF reproductive practices plus revisiting reforms proposed to handle sex abuse claims. It's ...

Southern Baptists narrowly rejected a proposal Wednesday to enshrine a ban on churches with women pastors in their constitution after opponents argued it was unnecessary because the denomination ...

The vote at the Southern Baptist Convention raising alarms about in vitro fertilization began with two conservatives at a seminary in Kentucky. By Ruth Graham Ruth Graham, who writes about religion, ...

There is an old story policy analysts like to tell about liquor laws. In the American South, two groups reliably showed up at ...

Fifty years ago, speakers at the first congress of the Baptist World Alliance pounded the rostrum in London’s massive, red brick Royal Albert Hall, predicted that the Alliance’s next meeting in London ...

Friends, family and numerous others impacted by the ministry of Steve Gaines poured out their thoughts and remembrances after ...

The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant Christian denomination in the U.S. and widely considered a bellwether for evangelism in the nation, preliminarily voted Wednesday to more ...

Until last week, Bill White had the kind of home in Arden, just south of Asheville, that real estate agents would describe as park-like, with a lot so dense with trees it was hard to see the house ...

NPR's Rachel Martin talks with Ed Stetzer, a pastor and a professor at Wheaton College, about the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Nashville following a year marked by high-profile departures.