Brent Leatherwood, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention's public policy arm, has been removed from his position. On Monday night, the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission issued a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Third-party investigator Guidepost Solutions published a historic report in May 2022 on SBC sex abuse crisis, including allegations that former SBC president Johnny Hunt molested a woman in 2010. Hunt ...

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 X posts, coming on the heels of the male-led Southern Baptist Convention reaching a confidential settlement in a lawsuit accusing a leader of sexual abuse, received praise among evangelical women ...

INDIANAPOLIS (RNS) — Leaders of a volunteer task force charged with implementing abuse reforms in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination say they were given an impossible task. In the end, the ...

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