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The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission is vocal on political issues and yet receives little funding. But it is ...
Champion Forest Baptist Church, a politically influential Texas megachurch, settles another child sex abuse case.
The Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, lost more than a quarter of a million members ...
I participated in two Cooperative Program celebrations in the past two weeks. One in Murray, Ky., at First Baptist Church ...
Membership in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has fallen for the 18th consecutive year, with total membership now at 12,722,266—the lowest reported since 1974—according to new data ...
The U.S. House passed a budget bill early today (May 22) to defund Planned Parenthood, end transgender interventions and help ...
Critics who say the denomination’s public policy agency no longer reflects their convictions could once again put its future ...
Latest annual census of Southern Baptist Convention statistics, the annual church profile, is released just weeks before the 2025 SBC annual meeting in Dallas. The Nashville-based denomination had ...
Charleston Southern University's first site and site of historic congregation of First Baptist Church in North Charleston was torn down.
Southern Baptist churches lost more than a quarter-million members nationwide in 2024, the 18th straight year of decline, but saw baptism and attendance numbers rise. In Arkansas, however, membership ...
Southern Baptists gather for vote that could ban churches with women pastors Voting representatives have gathered in Indianapolis for the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting and are ...