Rev. Fred Luter, pastor of the Franklin Ave. Baptist Church, delivers a sermon during Sunday Services at the Church in New Orleans. AP NEW ORLEANS — The Southern Baptist Convention voted Tuesday to ...

With an abortion case now before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Southern Baptist Convention of June 2022 encouraged its members to pray for the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that made ...

The handwritten resolution, signed by 116 Baptist ministers from Massachusetts who called slavery “repugnant,” was thought to have been lost. By Aishvarya Kavi The Rev. John Odams, pastor of the ...

That’s one of the observations of “Baptists In America,” a new history of the demonination written by Baylor University history professors Thomas Kidd and Barry Hankins and published by Oxford ...

Founded as a Freewill Baptist educational institution, Bates College possesses one of the most important and comprehensive collections of archival and library material related to this denomination in ...

The Genevan Reformer’s words are still worth hearing today. If right the name you do apply. Are Baptists Calvinists? If a Calvinist is a person who follows strictly the teachings of John Calvin, then ...

An introduction to Baptist churches, which together form the fifth largest Christian group in the world: their history, organisation and beliefs, including baptism of believers by full immersion.

A worship session at the 2025 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting on June 10, 2025, in Dallas. AP Photo/Richard W. Rodriguez The Southern Baptist Convention has lost 3.6 million members over ...

(RNS) — On June 9, two Southern Baptist pastors, Tom Ascol of Florida and Tom Buck of Texas, called on the delegates to next week’s denominational meeting in Nashville to rescind Resolution 9, which ...

With new president, Atlantic churches seek fuller reckoning with complicated history. Rhonda Britton typically gets invited to preach at white churches one month of the year—February. She’s happy to ...