By Adelle Banks Religion News Service (RNS) Can’t we all just get along? That was the question that Southern Baptists, torn between Calvinist...

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) Fred Luter had a lot of firsts in the last year: first black president of the Southern Baptist Conv...

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) In a generational changing of the guard, Southern Baptists are gaining a new advocate fo...

FALL RIVER, Mass. — Pastor Tom Cabral still tells people to meet him at "the bar," even though it's his church now. Locals best remember his wor...

My mother always taught us that no one should be alone at Christmas. We must expect miracles and mysteries. The gifts of her Christmas were peanut but...

The mainstream evangelical church in the U.S. often fails to encompass the complete range of human experience. It produces almost no art, nothing culturally noteworthy in any fashion.

It's Sunday morning, and Matt Nevels is at home again. From his front yard, he almost can see the white steeple of Red Bank Baptist Church. Less th...

There are a growing number of "gay churches" and welcoming and affirming groups pleading with the larger Christian community to recognize the movement of the Holy Spirit among the gay and lesbian community.

NEW ORLEANS -- A day after electing their first African-American president in a historic move that strives to erase its legacy of racism, Southern Bap...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Southern Baptist Convention's ethics chief has been reprimanded and his radio show canceled after he made inflammatory commen...

But the greatest reason for a change in name for the Southern Baptist Convention could be the need to break with its past and embrace an increasingly multi-ethnic reality in America.

I carried this question with me through college, seminary and 20 years as a pastor. But I never publicly admitted to having doubts or questions.

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) Officials of the Southern Baptist Convention say they were the victims of a hoax in which a group c...

By Adelle M. Banks c. 2011 Religion News Service (RNS) Southern Baptists on Wednesday (June 14) called hell an "eternal, conscious punishment" for...

PHOENIX -- Members of the Southern Baptist Convention elected an African-American pastor to its No. 2 position for the first time on Tuesday, signifyi...

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) Southern Baptists meeting in Phoenix adopted a plan Tuesday (June 14) to try to boost minorities in th...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The man expected to be in the running to become the first African-American in the No. 2 position of the nation's largest Protestan...

If you live near a cemetery, that whirring sound you've been hearing all week probably owes to my Baptist forebears spinning in their graves.

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) Southern Baptist leaders, grappling with several years of declining baptisms, unveiled a proposal Mond...