Tornadoes take toll on Nashville churches
Tornadoes that destroyed more than 140 buildings on March 3 in Middle Tennessee left their mark on a number of religious landmarks in Nashville....
Republican PAC launches never-Trump ad aimed at evangelicals
A group of “never-Trump” Republicans targets Christian voters in its first political ad warning that “evangelical leaders who lay their loyalty and faith on the altar of Donald Trump are betraying...
Baptist church calls transgender pastor
Members of an Ohio congregation invited the community to a September 8 worship service officially welcoming as its new pastor one of the few openly transgender Baptist ministers in the US....
Southern Baptist seminary nixes idea of reparations to black Baptist college
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has acknowledged that it benefited from the slave trade. A clergy group encouraged the school to give part of its endowment to a college started by people who had been enslaved.
Seminary started by Baptist moderates to close in January
The Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond opened in the wake of the Southern Baptist “conservative resurgence” launched in 1979.
Tennessee Southern Baptists shun church with a woman senior pastor
Ellen Di Giosia was told that she could not vote in a statewide gathering of congregations.
After Trinity Lutheran, a state court case looks at public funds being given to churches
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a Missouri case may affect a court in New Jersey looking at similar questions of church-state separation.
To Arkansas judge who ruled on execution drugs, death penalty protest is a religious act
Wendell Griffen, an Arkansas circuit judge who also serves as a Baptist pastor, defended his participation in a death penalty protest after issuing a court order barring the state from using an exe...
Baptist church ordains transgender woman
In what is likely a first, Calvary Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., has ordained Allyson Robinson, who was previously ordained as a man, to the gospel ministry....
Obama: religious freedom is key policy for U.S. abroad
Promoting religious freedom is an important part of U.S. foreign policy, President Obama told about 3,500 attendees at the 62nd National Prayer Breakfast at a Washington hotel....