INDIANAPOLIS (RNS) — Leaders of a volunteer task force charged with implementing abuse reforms in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination say they were given an impossible task. In the end, the ...

Bart Barber defied the top brass. In May 2018, the Texas pastor and his fellow trustees at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth fired seminary president Paige Patterson, the ...

Telecommunications giant SBC Communications Inc. on May 25 reached a tentative agreement with the Communication Workers of America, the union that represents nearly 100,000 SBC employees in 13 states, ...

There were 259,824 fewer members in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination in 2024 and 30 fewer churches. For the Southern Baptist Convention, it marks the latest in a now-predictable trend of ...

ARE SOUTHERN BAPTISTS “dwindling”? Recent headlines about the annual meeting of the 16.27 million member Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) refer to its ostensible struggles with membership decline.

Now the pastor of Biltmore Church in Asheville, North Carolina, which draws more than 7,000 to weekend services, Frank said one of his goals, if elected, would be to help every SBC congregation, no ...

SBC Communications Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. last week unveiled an agreement to deliver managed business services combining Cisco’s equipment with SBC’s transport and networking expertise. The first ...

The tentative agreement provided across-the-board base wage increases totaling 12 percent, compounded, plus an additional 1 percent lump sum in the first year and cost-of-living-adjustments in the ...

SBC President Bart Barber, a Texas pastor, is entering his second and final term amid a contentious moment in denomination over abuse reform and status of women pastors. As a blogger and then trustee ...