PHOENIX — Southern Baptists, who split from Northern Baptists in 1845 over the issue of slavery, on Tuesday elected a black pastor to serve as first vice president of the nation’s largest Protestant ...

Even those in leadership roles with the Southern Baptist Convention agree that the association has a lot to answer for when it comes to race. “We were a segregated, virtually all-white denomination as ...

Baptists have become imposers of their morality, bulldozing through the separation of church and state.

Texas pastor Dwight McKissic moved to bring his proposal on the “alt-right” to messengers Tuesday June 13. *It took two votes to do it, but the Southern Baptist Convention voted late Tuesday to ...

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, has been placed on a 12-month probation but will continue to ...

The Southern Baptist Convention has spent decades encouraging its participating churches to operate "through democratic processes" while touting the responsibility individuals have in shaping ministry ...

(CNN) – More than 160 years after its founding as a pro-slavery church, the Southern Baptist Convention was preparing Tuesday to elect a black pastor for the first time to lead the denomination. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Southern Baptist Convention is the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. It has stayed silent about a legal battle at ...