Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An attempt at tightening constitutional limits on women’s authority in churches affiliated with an influential Presbyterian ...

The Southern Baptists' move to silence women is not a conflict between church and state. It is a convergence.

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Pastor Dillon Awes of the Stedfast Baptist Church in Watauga, Texas told his congregation that allowing a woman to preach in church is like “spitting in the face of God.” His sermon preceded a similar ...

(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 ...

It is a standing date that I look forward to every other Sunday afternoon with great excitement. My dear friend MC and I meet at a cozy cafe in Detroit and splurge for a delicious drink (and, OK, ...

Pope Francis made waves last weekend with his off-the-cuff remarks calling homilies at Catholic churches "a disaster." Most of the headlines, including NCR's, highlighted the pope's advice to ...

The Southern Baptist Convention’s vote to strengthen enforcement of its prohibition on women pastors landed like a thunderclap in some corners of American Christianity. In much of Black America’s ...

Presbyterian Church in America, an influential evangelical Christian denomination, gathered for a general assembly in Richmond from June 10-13. A factional divide largely over women's authority in the ...

An attempt at tightening constitutional limits on women’s authority in churches affiliated with an influential Presbyterian denomination narrowly failed over concerns about the effect on governance ...