ICE came to Baton Rouge for Christmas, and at least one Southern Baptist pastor welcomed them, Rodney Kennedy says.

A former Southern Baptist pastor and seminary professor won’t serve jail time after lying to federal investigators in the first and potentially only felony conviction to emerge from an abuse-related ...

The Rev. Clint Pressley woke up Thursday morning praying for the Southern Baptist Convention, he told his 9,000 followers on social media site X, the former Twitter. “Pray I don’t embarrass us,” the ...

A Southern Baptist pastor in Greensboro, North Carolina, was arraigned Tuesday in federal court in New York City on charges of falsifying records in a sexual abuse case, part of the Department of ...

The Rev. Grant Storms, who made headlines in 2003 when he attempted to shut down the annual Southern Decadence festival in the French Quarter, was arrested in Jefferson Parish on charges Feb. 25.

A prominent Calvinist pastor, Josh Buice, who previously left the Southern Baptist Convention over what he described as its growing liberalism and “wokeness,” has now been suspended by his own church.

INDIANAPOLIS — Members of the Southern Baptist Convention narrowly rejected an effort to add a bar on female pastors to the organization’s constitution Wednesday. The change was supported by a ...

Leaders say “due to history and language” churches use the term for non-ordained ministers and women. The title of pastor is used for women in Chinese Southern Baptist churches because of language, ...

Almost every day, Paul Allen and Ted Lahey have a high school reunion. Both are East Athens natives and attended Cedar Shoals High School. Now, the longtime companions-turned-co-owners get to see the ...

Charlotte pastor Clint Pressley speaks at a news conference after he was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention on Wednesday, June 12, in Indianapolis, Indiana. SONYA SINGH SOUTHERN ...