Just a few days ago in Baton Rouge, a new chapter was written in the history of black and white churches. Three dozen pastors and pastoral students, both black and white, male and female, from two ...

(RNS) — During last month’s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, debates about if women can serve as pastors dominated the business sessions and national news coverage. But at multiple Baptist ...

(RNS) — After many in the room cheered her on and stood as she preached, the session featuring her sermon temporarily disappeared from the National Baptist Convention U.S.A. Inc.’s Facebook page. (RNS ...

A few weeks ago, on the occasion of our church’s Children’s and Youth Sunday, I co-preached with a 10-year-old girl.

On Sunday in his final sermon, the pastor of the 7,800-member Shades Mountain Baptist Church in Vestavia Hills - who announced by video message Friday that he’s stepping down from the pulpit - hinted ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - After more than 30 years, Green Acres Baptist Church’s Senior Pastor David Dykes is preparing his final message to the community this Sunday ahead of his retirement at the end of ...

“Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart” (Psalm 90:12-13). The Lectionary gives us Mark’s lurid account of the decapitation of John the Baptist on this commemoration of ...

It’s the second Sunday of Advent and in the Holy Mass today, the priest will light up the second candle of Advent, which means we’ve got two weeks before Christmas Day. Today’s gospel reading comes ...

Gina Stewart has been known for breaking barriers in Black Baptist circles. In 1995, she became pastor of Christ Missionary Baptist Church and the first African American woman to be elected to a Black ...