As the global church looks ahead to the 2,000th anniversary of Pentecost and the birth of the Christian church in 2033, the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — How tough is it to create a racially diverse denomination? Consider a recent luncheon organized by the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant ...

Today, with 20,500,000 members, the Baptists are the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., and within that denomination the Southern Baptist Conference accounts for nearly half—9,500,000.* ...

Star of Bethlehem Baptist Church, 1204 St. Joseph St., Baton Rouge, will celebrate the pastoral anniversary of Pastor Henry J ...

Baptists, like all religions, are losing members who are leaving religion altogether. But this isn’t the major source of Baptist losses. Among those who have left a Baptist church, only one-in ...

The debates over race within Southern Baptist circles have been some of the most intense in years. The Southern Baptist Convention, which was founded in support of slaveholding missionaries in ...

The Southern Baptist Convention is the nation's largest Protestant denomination and is holding its annual meeting in Dallas.

Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear speaks to the denomination's executive committee in Nashville in February 2019. (Mark Humphrey/AP) ...

NASHVILLE (RNS) — The nation’s largest Protestant denomination continues to get smaller. There were 14 million Southern Baptists in 2020, according to a new report released Thursday (May 20 ...