People attend the morning session of the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting on June 16, 2021, in Nashville, Tennessee. Southern Baptists gathering at their next annual meeting in Indianapolis will vote on whether to enact a constitutional ban on churches with women pastors.(AP Photo/Mark ...
A rift within the Southern Baptist Convention is growing deeper as the convention prepares for more changes moderates view as a further assault on long-standing Baptist principles.Filaroski, P. Douglas
for having a woman pastor. The SBC stated that Saddleback was “not in friendly cooperation with the Convention.” The church was the denomination’s second largest congregation. In 2024 the SBC similarly expelled the First Baptist Church of Alexandria, a historic Virginia congregation, for its pe...
“Leaning on the Everlasting Arms,” and that opened floodgates of church memories for me. My earliest memory of church is standing beside my mother at the First Baptist Church of Fairfield, Texas. My father was the pastor, and the year would have been 1954. That memory prompted me to ...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Southern Baptists narrowly rejected a proposal Wednesday to enshrine a ban on churches with women pastors in their constitution after opponents argued it was unnecessary because the denomination already has a way of ousting such churches. The measure received support from 61% ...
Southern Baptists narrowly rejected a ban on women pastors Wednesday. About 61% of the delegates voted for the ban, which is less than the required two-thirds supermajority needed to pass the proposal. CBS News' Lilia Luciano reports.
Delegates at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting have narrowly rejected a proposal to enshrine a ban on churches with women pastors in the denomination’s constitution.
The Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday ousted its 2nd-largest congregation — Saddleback Church, the California megachurch founded by Rick Warren — for having a woman pastor.
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But Spence Shelton, pastor of Mercy Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, argued that it was unnecessary. He said there is no doubt that Southern Baptists are "complementarian," as they describe the view that men and women have equal value but different roles that complement one another. ...