There are seven more months before the next annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. But the race for SBC president may already be over, following news that Al Mohler likely will be nominated to run as the denomination’s next president.

A majority white Baptist church has apologized for ‘racial prejudices’ that leaders deemed partly responsible for a favored black candidate losing the Oct. 27 vote for pastor, and said it will discipline those guilty of the sin.

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Al Mohler will be nominated in June 2020 to serve as Southern Baptist Convention president.

As a member of Woman’s Missionary Union of Virginia’s Hope Team: Domestic Violence, Jocelyn Henry-Whitehead emphasizes domestic violence is “really a global issue.”

How do an abusive childhood, missions involvement and harp music merge into a ministry? For Jocelyn Henry-Whitehead, it’s the story of how turbulent growing-up years led her into ministry geared toward others who suffer the trauma of domestic violence.

A Baylor University historian, an ethicist and a pastor—all Baptists—disagreed about the usefulness of the term “evangelical” and the state of evangelicalism in a recent conversation at the Museum of the Bible.

A prominent Southern Baptist church in southwest Florida acknowledged “racial prejudice” was a factor in its congregation’s decision not to appoint a black senior pastor candidate.

During a celebration of his 50th year in pulpit ministry, John MacArthur, the pastor of Grace Community Church, admonished Beth Moore to “go home.”

Christianity is reassessing how to describe sexual misconduct, with an eye to owning up to the seriousness of abuse that was once dismissed as innocent or covered up to protect the powerful.

Southern Baptist leaders wrestled with questions of procedure and accountability during a gathering on sexual abuse, grappling with how best to address an issue some say the denomination took far too long to address.

The gospel cannot be separated from how the church deals with sexual abuse, Southern Baptist leaders J.D. Greear and Russell Moore told the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission’s sixth annual national conference.

Courage and a recognition of trauma’s long-term effects are called for if the church is to deal sufficiently with its sexual abuse crisis, two well-known evangelical women told a Southern Baptist Convention conference on the subject.