The convention’s obsession with subjugating women and arguing their inherent unfitness for leadership may explain its membership decline.

Southern Baptists took a step toward enshrining a ban on female pastors. The proposed amendment will need to pass a two-thirds majority next year.

The Southern Baptist Convention has ousted its second-largest congregation. The convention voted Tuesday to oust Saddleback Church, the California high-profile megachurch started by celebrity pastor ...

Four years ago, the Southern Baptist Convention received a landmark report asserting that top leaders in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination had long minimized reports of sexual abuse by ...