Note: This article was updated March 3 to correct the year Southern Baptist membership peaked. The Southern Baptist Convention lost 1,253 congregations in 2022, the most recent year on record, its ...

Tennessee Supreme Court justices sought clarity regarding the church autonomy doctrine Thursday (Jan. 8) in a case focused on ...

The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., is facing a reckoning over its handling of sexual abuse. The U.S. Department of Justice announced in 2022 it was ...

Southern Baptist pastor Johnny Hunt, a former SBC president, is suing the SBC Executive Committee and a third-party firm, Guidepost Solutions, for defamation over abuse allegations in a 2022 report.

As a Southern Baptist, Russell Minick struggled to balance his respect for church attendees with his contempt for leaders in the country's largest Protestant denomination. In 2012, Minick took a job ...

Without offering details on the nature of the Justice Department inquiry, the denomination’s administrative entity says it’s “grateful” that “no further action” will be taken around its response to ...

(The Conversation) — In Southern Baptist history, rules on women and sexuality are often entwined. A scholar writes about the first congregation to be expelled from the SBC over LGBTQ+ issues SBC ...

The Southern Baptist Convention is the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, according to Pew Research. Here’s what to know about the organization. On June 8 and 9, Southern Baptist ...

Former East Tennessee minister Preston Garner sued the SBC for defamation, leveling a major threat to the oversight group ...