A Southern Baptist academic journal examines the “lost legacies” of George W. Truett and W.A. Criswell regarding matters of race and racism in the Southern Baptist Convention.

04/09/2021 - By Alex Sibley / Southwestern Seminary

California pastor Anthony Dockery will be nominated for first vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention at the 2021 SBC annual meeting in Nashville in June.

04/07/2021 - By George Schroeder / Baptist Press

Houston pastor Ramón Medina will be nominated for second vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention at the 2021 SBC annual meeting in Nashville in June.

03/29/2021 - By Baptist Press Staff

Irma Moss vividly remembers five or six Communist soldiers invading her family’s home in Cuba and whisking her father off to jail in the wake of the Cuban Revolution more than 60 years ago.

03/29/2021 - By Trennis Henderson / Woman's Missionary Union

The National African American Fellowship of the Southern Baptist Convention issued a statement asking presidents of SBC seminaries to take steps to help defuse current racial tensions within the convention.

03/25/2021 - By George Schroeder / Baptist Press

Among women belonging to churches affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, many have questioned the faith’s gender-role doctrine and more recently urged a stronger response to disclosures of sexual abuse perpetrated by some SBC clergy.

03/24/2021 - By David Crary / Associated Press

Texas Baptists from Kingsville and Garland are among the three young women national Woman’s Missionary Union named to this year’s National Acteens Panel.

03/23/2021 - By Julie Walters / Woman's Missionary Union

Pastor Larry White, a board member of Renewal Ranch, knows how important it is for the church to invest in drug abuse prevention and recovery programs.

03/23/2021 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

Elders at Crabapple First Baptist Church condemned both the “extreme and wicked” actions of a church member who has been charged with killing eight people in a series of shootings, calling them a direct contradiction of his professed faith in Christ.

03/22/2021 - By Scott Barkley / Baptist Press

Dusty Durbin, pastor of Big Level Baptist Church in Wiggins, Miss., will be nominated for second vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention.

03/19/2021 - By Scott Barkley / Baptist Press

Creative thinking led to some notoriety for Corey Brooks, but it’s his innate acceptance of all people—the poor, the better-off, gang members and released felons—that has garnered the pastor a multi-faceted ministry in Chicago.

03/19/2021 - By Karen L. Willoughby

Jacob Zailian knows the exact spot where his own life changed dramatically—in a cell on the fourth floor of D pod in Fresno County Jail, where he committed his life to Christ.

03/16/2021 - By Grace Thornton / Baptist Press