The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission is vocal on political issues and yet receives little funding. But it is ...

I participated in two Cooperative Program celebrations in the past two weeks. One in Murray, Ky., at First Baptist Church ...

Critics who say the denomination’s public policy agency no longer reflects their convictions could once again put its future ...

The Ellis Auditorium was brand new May 13, 1925, when Southern Baptists met on a spring afternoon and voted to begin the ...

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 ...

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 Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, lost more than a quarter of a million members ...

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 ...