DALLAS — The Southern Baptist Convention on Wednesday again spurned a constitutional ban on female pastors as the prohibition's proponents failed to move the needle on a contentious issue that has ...
MOLINE -- About 30 years ago, a church pastor told Mark and Beth Rupe he thought they would make a great ministerial couple. ''But he thought Mark was the one who should go to seminary,'' she said.
(RNS) — More than 10,000 local church messengers are expected at the SBC's annual meeting in Dallas next week — where they'll debate women pastors, deal with growing legal fees and decide the future ...
Beth Allison Barr challenges the narrative that women have never exercised church authority. In 2021, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler reaffirmed his denomination’s stance ...
DALLAS (RNS) — About halfway through leading his first annual Southern Baptist Convention business session as SBC president, North Carolina pastor Clint Pressley seemed to wonder what he had gotten ...
Nov. 15 was a day of firsts for the North Carolina Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). ELCA Presiding Bishop Yehiel Curry, installed Oct. 4 in Minneapolis, came to Christ ...