Southern Baptists are the United States ’ largest Protestant denomination, with 15.9 million members. In June, the group ’ s leaders voted at its national convention that women should no ...

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At the church's annual convention, votes will be cast for a number of resolutions confirming the official stance of the Southern Baptists on various issues.

“For Southern Baptists, the waters of sexuality are not muddy,” he said, noting how their 100-year-old Baptist Faith and Message describes marital unions, citing a passage in the New Testament.

The convention has 12.7 million members in the United States. Southern Baptists have long held to a view called complementarianism, which prescribes different roles for men and women.

The Southern Baptist Convention, with 12.7 million members and 46,876 churches, is the nation's largest Protestant denomination and among its most prosperous.

The Southern Baptist Convention gathered for its annual legislative assembly in Dallas on June 10-11, reviewing resolutions about social and cultural issues, like same-sex marriage.

Southern Baptists meeting this week in Dallas will be asked to approve resolutions calling for a legal ban on pornography and reversing the U.S.

Southern Baptists will be meeting on the 40th anniversary of another Dallas annual meeting. An epic showdown took place when a record-shattering 45,000 church representatives clashed in what ...