The Latest Breaking News from the Southern Baptist Convention

The Southern Baptist Convention has lost 3.6 million members over the past two decades and faces an ongoing sexual abuse crisis. At its June 2025 annual meeting, however, neither of those issues took up as much time as controversial social issues, including the denomination’s stance on same-sex marriage.

Convention resolution also called for defunding Planned Parenthood and criticized ‘willful childlessness’

The United States has brought hundreds of thousands of children from abroad to be adopted by American families

Author Christa Brown shares her story of abuse and exposes the hypocrisy inherent in the Southern Baptist Convention's cover-up.

Clint Pressley, 55, the newly elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention, is a hard-working pastor of North Carolina’s fifth-largest Baptist church with two large campuses in suburban Charlotte

Controversy surrounds ERLC leader Brent Leatherwood in the Southern Baptist Convention amid differing viewpoints and internal challenges.

The recent annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention saw a number of motions related to women. The Conversation asked Susan Shaw, a gender and sexuality studies scholar who studies Southern Baptist women, to explain the votes and other developments in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.

Paul Pressler, a key figure in the Southern Baptist Convention, dies at 94. Known for conservative resurgence but faced sexual abuse allegations.

Paul Pressler, a leading figure of the Southern Baptist Convention who was accused of sexual abuse and later settled a lawsuit over the allegations, has died