After four years under Brent Leatherwood, SBC pastors look for a leader to rebuild trust in its public-policy arm.

Messengers attending the Southern Baptist Convention participate in worship during the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting, Tuesday, June 10, 2025, in Dallas. Credit: AP/Richard W. Rodriguez ...

NPR's Mary Louise talks to professor Beth Allison Barr about the Southern Baptist Convention’s planned vote this week on whether to expel churches where women are pastors.

INDIANAPOLIS — The Southern Baptist Convention rejected Wednesday a constitutional ban on women pastors, a major victory for those within the nation's largest Protestant denomination seeking to ...

INDIANAPOLIS (RNS) — More than 11,000 Southern Baptist Church members, known as messengers, will gather in Indianapolis this week for one of the largest, and sometimes noisiest, religious ...