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Clint Pressley, pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, has been elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, beating out five other candidates in an atypically crowded field.

Newly appointed missionaries looked around the Indiana Convention Center’s hall at the urging of Paul Chitwood, International Mission Board president. He gestured from the stage to more than 13,000 messengers

The United States was 23 years old and Pulaski County was a mere six-month-old toddler when First Baptist Church of Somerset was constituted on June 8, 1799.

The Southern Baptist Convention has been at war with itself for more than 40 years, with each new battle promising uniformity that never materializes for long.

Four years after adopting an aggressive plan to advance the Great Commission of Jesus, the Southern Baptist Convention largely has failed to follow its own plan, a blue-ribbon evaluation team reports.

With the current count standing at six nominees for president of the SBC, here is a bullet point guide of where they stand on key issues.

A group tasked with studying ways to increase cooperation among a fractious Southern Baptist Convention has proposed four recommendations to be considered over the next year.

A record six candidates have now announced their intention to run for the presidency of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.

An intensifying disagreement between Southwestern Seminary and its former president touches on broader concerns in the SBC about accountability.

PIKEVILLE, Ky. (KT) – When Lucas Taylor surrendered to pastoral ministry, he and his wife agreed they would go wherever the Lord led them.