The U.S. feminist movement’s perpetual quest for gender equality has suffered notable setbacks during President Donald ...

New in this year’s report is qualitative research that identifies six markers of congregations that create empowering ...

The equality of women is a gospel issue, not just a social justice issue, according to veteran pastor Cynthia Hale.

(The Conversation) — Southern Baptists are calling for an investigation into the ordination of three women. A scholar explains why this continues to be a fraught issue, even though 2,500 women have ...

It's a historic day for the 13-million-member Southern Baptist Church. Leaders attending the group’s annual convention in Indianapolis did not get the two-thirds majority vote they would have needed ...

The nation’s largest Protestant denomination will make a big decision tomorrow. At its annual meeting, the Southern Baptist Convention will vote on a constitutional amendment that would essentially ...

DALLAS (CBSDFW/AP) - Emily Snook is the daughter of a Southern Baptist pastor. She met her husband, also a pastor, while they attended a Southern Baptist university. Yet the 39-year-old Oklahoma woman ...

(AP) — From its towering white steeple and red-brick facade to its Sunday services filled with rousing gospel hymns and evangelistic sermons, First Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia, bears many ...

In 1992, 42-year-old Kathy Manis Findley was ordained by Southern Baptists in El Paso, Texas, after members of her own congregation in Arkansas repeatedly declined to do so. The debate split Lakeshore ...

Southern Baptist women are coming together to rebuke a leader of their faith for comments he's made about women. Southern Baptists generally believe men and women have different roles, and they ...

The Southern Baptist Convention is at another turning point for women pastors, in which the upcoming annual meeting in New Orleans will feature votes on codifying a ban on women pastors. A campaign to ...