(RNS) — During last month’s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, debates about if women can serve as pastors dominated the business sessions and national news coverage. But at multiple Baptist ...

Gina Stewart has been known for breaking barriers in Black Baptist circles. In 1995, she became pastor of Christ Missionary Baptist Church and the first African American woman to be elected to a Black ...

Just a few days ago in Baton Rouge, a new chapter was written in the history of black and white churches. Three dozen pastors and pastoral students, both black and white, male and female, from two ...

A Mississippi pastor preached from the Bible for 96 hours, unofficially surpassing the Guinness World Record for individual ...

Each week in North Minneapolis, some 1,400 people—in person and online—hear Pastor Edrin Williams speak about the transformational love of God. As lead pastor of Sanctuary Covenant Church—a ...

(RNS) — The Southern Baptist writer and speaker Beth Moore is theologically conservative and doesn’t believe women should be pastors. But her recent tweet renewed a debate that’s been an issue for ...

Rev. Walter J. Arrington is being honored for serving 40 years as pastor of Peoples Baptist Church in Canton. Arrington, 71, is a second-generation clergyman who also serves as chairman of the Greater ...