Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DALLAS — The Southern Baptist Convention on Wednesday again spurned a constitutional ban on female pastors as the prohibition's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Messengers raise their ballots in support of a motion during the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting on June 11, 2024, in ...

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Nikki Hardeman, of Atlanta, Ga., an advocacy director for Baptist Women in Ministry (left), Meredith Stone, executive director of Baptist Women in Ministry (center), and Christa Brown, an advocate for ...

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

INDIANAPOLIS — The Southern Baptist Convention made national news this week with votes on women pastors and in vitro fertilization in a wide-ranging annual meeting. During the meeting in Indianapolis, ...

Cathleen Falsani, former religion reporter at the Chicago Tribune, used to say her job was cultural translator - converting the language of religious people for secular publication, and then ...

The Southern Baptist Convention on Wednesday rejected adding language to its constitution that would ban women from serving as pastors or elders in the church. The vote at the annual SBC meeting gave ...

A week after she went on National Public Radio to urge the Southern Baptist Convention to officially accept women as pastors, the Rev. Kristen Muse received an unusual letter at her church office. The ...

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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 ...