Both churches, which had women in top pastoral positions, appealed their ouster to the 2023 annual meeting and were overwhelmingly rejected by the delegates. A similar scenario played out in Indianapolis on Tuesday, when messengers voted overwhelmingly to kick out the First ...
Southern Baptists Set for Annual MeetingRACHEL ZOLL, AP Religion Writer
Both churches, which had women in top pastoral positions, appealed their ouster to the 2023 annual meeting and were overwhelmingly rejected by the delegates. A similar scenario played out in Indianapolis on Tuesday, when messengers voted overwhelmingly to kick out First Baptist Church of Alexandria ...
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FILE - In this Tuesday, June 11, 2019 file photo, Christa Brown, of Denver, Colo., speaks during a rally in Birmingham, Ala., outside the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting. Brown, an author and retired attorney, says she was abused by a Southern Baptist minister as a child...
The resolution — approved by more than 10,000 delegates near the end of the Southern Baptist Convention's two-day annual meeting in Indianapolis — affirms that embryos are human beings from the moment of fertilization, whether in the womb or generated in the laboratory via IVF. That's the...
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The Southern Baptist Convention, born of a North-South split over slavery, on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a resolution lamenting its pro-slave-owner roots and repenting for lingering racism. The resolution was approved by a show of hands at the denomination’s annual meeting in Atlanta, a gathe...
HOUSTONThe Southern Baptist Convention approved a resolution Wednesday expressing its opposition to and disappointment in the Boy Scouts of America's new policy allowing gay Scouts. The resolution was voted on by members at the denomination's annual meeting in Houston. It also calls on the Boy Sco...
California Southern Baptist Convention is a fellowship of some 450,000 members in approximately 2,300 language and multi-ethnic congregations that cooperate with the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in America. Each week throughout California some 80 language groups are re...