The Southern Baptist Convention annual church profile has told a similar story of decline for nearly 20 years. But here's ...

There ought to be but three Christian denominations in the world,” an Episcopal bishop once said. ‘The Roman Catholics standing on one side for the authority of the church, and the Baptists standing ...

“It’s hard to find Baptists who agree on anything, except that the Devil ought to be trimmed down a little bit.” So cracked a Baptist last week at the 43rd annual meeting of the Northern Baptist ...

Southern Baptist churches saw sustained growth in attendance and baptisms, but the two-decade membership decline continued in ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

He was shocked to learn that Baptists had been imprisoned because they refused to pay the state’s church tax. These monies went to pay minister salaries and to maintain Virginia’s “established” ...

For several years, membership in Southern Baptist churches has been in decline. The American denomination hit its peak in 2005 with 16.6 million members, and since then, communities have seen a steady ...