The Baptist faith spread quickly in 19th-century Western North Carolina — where Episcopal and Presbyterian churches had long established themselves — because of the intensity of personal conviction of ...

The Southern Baptist Convention voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to uphold earlier decisions to expel two churches because they have women pastors. The decision came during the group's annual meeting in ...

VIENNA — Faith Baptist Church of Vienna has announced new pastor, Rick Eaton. Pastor Eaton has lived in Wood County and the surrounding area all his life, apart from four years in the United States ...

The Rev. Linda Barnes Popham, right, prays with a member of Fern Creek Baptist Church during a service on May 21 in Louisville, Ky. In February, Fern Creek was one of five churches disfellowshipped ...

The Southern Baptist Convention is preparing to vote on a proposed constitutional ban on churches with female pastors at the Protestant denomination's annual meeting Tuesday and Wednesday in ...

“We are a nation of communities…a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky ...

This week in Indianapolis, 61% of Southern Baptist Churches voted to exclude women from serving in pastoral leadership. The vote required 66% to pass. The 39% that voted down the measure are by no ...

PLAINS, Ga. — Before reaching the 1978 peace deal between Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter managed months of intense preparation, high-stakes negotiations at Camp David ...