Citing his advancing age and a need to plan for the future, Fred Luter Jr., the longtime senior pastor of Franklin Avenue ...

Southern Baptist leaders spoke up in reflection upon hearing the news of the death of former SBC Executive Committee ...

GREENFIELD — With the Southern Baptist Convention going on this week at the Indiana Convention Center, church leaders expected up to 16,000 people to convene in Indianapolis for several days of ...

A seminary has launched a scholarship in memory of Morris Chapman, the former president of the Southern Baptist Convention who died earlier this week at the age of 84.

When Gayle Stanley began working for the Southern Baptist Convention Jan. 4, 1982, the international missions entity was ...

INDIANAPOLIS (RNS) — More than 11,000 Southern Baptist Church members, known as messengers, will gather in Indianapolis this week for one of the largest, and sometimes noisiest, religious meetings of ...

Chapman's legacy as SBC Executive Committee chief executive for 18 years is that he was a source of stability in the ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) — Summers are often a time when congregations send out people to far off missions work. The state’s Southern Baptists envisioned something closer to home. RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) — ...

DALLAS -- Two years after unveiling a website to house a database of Southern Baptist leaders credibly accused of sexual abuse, the effort has stalled without a single predator being identified there.

Paul Pressler, a leading figure of the Southern Baptist Convention who was accused of sexually abusing boys and young men and later settled a lawsuit over the allegations, has died. He was 94.

Southern Baptist Convention ethics leader Brent Leatherwood penned a column on the afternoon of Sunday, July 21 commending President Joe Biden on deciding not to seek reelection. Twenty-eight hours ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Paul Pressler, a leading figure of the Southern Baptist Convention who was accused of sexually abusing boys and young men and later settled a lawsuit over the allegations, has died. He ...