The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, called Wednesday for restrictions on in-vitro fertilization, as the hot-button topic of reproductive rights ...

There ought to be but three Christian denominations in the world,” an Episcopal bishop once said. ‘The Roman Catholics standing on one side for the authority of the church, and the Baptists standing ...

The vote at the Southern Baptist Convention raising alarms about in vitro fertilization began with two conservatives at a seminary in Kentucky. By Ruth Graham Ruth Graham, who writes about religion, ...

(RNS) — Southern Baptists called for the overturning of the Supreme Court decision that ruled same-sex marriage constitutional, and also declared their support of laws that “recognize the biological ...

(RNS) — Southern Baptists, after lengthy debate Wednesday (June 14), voted on new language for their constitution that would state only men can be pastors of the nation’s largest Protestant ...

A book by Marion Edgar Ramay, “Baptists Hold That Line,” is a series of doctrinal sermons that were given at the Falls Creek ...

Early on April 4 morning, the following message appeared on the Twitter account of the Rev. Raphael Warnock, the newly elected U.S. senator from Georgia: “The meaning of Easter is more transcendent ...

Wednesday’s vote was not a ban on in vitro fertilization. But it suggested that ordinary evangelicals are increasingly open to seeing embryos as people. By Jacey Fortin and Ruth Graham Southern ...

Democrats need alliances between Baptists and bootleggers. So do Republicans, but right now, they have plenty of those alliances, which is a key reason, and maybe the key reason, that they are riding ...

For several years, membership in Southern Baptist churches has been in decline. The American denomination hit its peak in 2005 with 16.6 million members, and since then, communities have seen a steady ...