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 ...

Denise McClain Massey, who earned three graduate degrees from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, left the SBC after it formalized the no-women-pastors rule in 2000 and is now a professor of ...

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.

Women who have left Southern Baptist institutional life and who have remained share more about their experiences. By a margin of 44 votes, Kathy Litton broke a 53-year stretch of men holding a key ...

(RNS) — Official Roman Catholic and Southern Baptist teaching bars women from being pastors or priests. But some polling shows that many Catholics and Baptists would be fine with a woman pastor.

More Southern Baptist women questioning roles March 27, 2021 at 3:28 a.m. by DAVID CRARY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ...

More than 2,000 Southern Baptist women have signed an open letter saying they are "shocked" by Patterson's comments on divorce and sexuality and warning Southern Baptist Convention leaders not to ...

NEW ORLEANS — Southern Baptists will have the opportunity to vote on a measure that would enshrine a ban on women pastors within the denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention Executive ...

In this photo provided by the Second Baptist Church, Jacki King speaks at a Ministry to Women event called "The Gathering" at Second Baptist Church in Conway, Ark., on Feb. 20, 2020.