FILE - People take part in a worship service during the annual Southern Baptist Convention meeting Tuesday, June 15, 2021, in Nashville, Tenn. Southern Baptists gathering at their next annual meeting ...

Southern Baptists looked back 100 years to commemorate the adoption of their unified giving plan and their statement of faith ...

The Nashville-based SBC, the nation's largest Protestant denomination, reported 241,000 fewer members and 292 fewer churches in 2023. Downward trends have contributed to differing arguments for the ...

Southern Baptists are transforming lives, healing communities, responding to disasters, caring for hurting people and funding countless ministries – all at record levels. This may be surprising news ...

Reversing a decision that surprised many Southern Baptist worship leaders, Lifeway paused the discontinuation of its digital catalog of worship music. The Brentwood-based publishing arm for the ...

When SBC worship leaders look to their congregations for musical talent, this is what they find. One out of every five Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) churches has struggled, in recent years, to ...

Messengers stand for worship during a Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting Tuesday, June 11, 2024, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Doug McSchooler) INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Southern Baptists narrowly ...

DALLAS — Southern Baptist representatives on Wednesday fended off two efforts to move the staunchly conservative body even more sharply to the right, giving a vote of confidence to its public-policy ...

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 of the ...

There ought to be but three Christian denominations in the world,” an Episcopal bishop once said. ‘The Roman Catholics standing on one side for the authority of the church, and the Baptists standing ...

Southern Baptist churches lost more than a quarter-million members nationwide in 2024, the 18th straight year of decline, but saw baptism and attendance numbers rise. Congregations belonging to the ...

The Southern Baptist Convention reported today that membership fell for the 17th consecutive year, falling below 13 million for the first time since the 1970s. At its height in 2006, the SBC had 16.3 ...