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The establishment narrowly headed off a takeover attempt by a hard-right movement at this week's Southern Baptist convention in Nashville. Ed Litton, a moderate pastor from Alabama, won the crucial three-way contest in the presidential election with the potential to reshape the future of the ...

Calls for structural change are once again in the air among Southern Baptist Convention insiders, opening the door to possibilities that could significantly reshape the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.

Charleston pastor Marshall Blalock listened again to Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1961 remarks at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where “his perspective was not always appreciated at the level we would

Ed Litton, pastor of Redemption Church in Mobile, speaks on the Sustaining Faithfulness of God to those gathered Nov. 13 for session two of the 2023 Alabama Baptist Pastors Conference at Taylor Road Baptist Church in Montgomery.

The 2023 Alabama Baptist Pastors Conference is set for Nov. 13 at Taylor Road Baptist Church in Montgomery. Learn more about the speakers, schedule and important registration deadline.

Southern Baptist Convention leaders took the lead in releasing a statement backed by dozens of Evangelical leaders condemning attacks by Hamas that have killed hundreds of Israelis and expressed their support for Israel's "right and duty to defend itself against further attack."

In a historic move for the Southern Baptist Convention, Pastor Kevin Smith has been unanimously elected as the chairperson for the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) by its board of trustees.

The 2023 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting rejected women pastors—but the fight is not over.

The president of the Southern Baptist Convention has urged churches considering leaving the SBC to “press pause” until they hear from a new task force on cooperation that has not yet been named and will have less than nine months to work.

Former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, J.D. Greear, has backed the National African American Fellowship’s challenge to a recent vote by SBC messengers to ban women from serving as a "pastor of any kind" as an "unnecessary infringement upon the autonomy of the local church."