Pastor Andy Wood and his wife, Stacie, outside Saddleback Church in Lake Forest. She was recently named a teaching pastor and three other women were ordained as associate pastors. (Allison Dinner / ...

From its towering white steeple and red-brick facade to its Sunday services filled with rousing gospel hymns and evangelistic sermons, First Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia, bears many of the ...

When her teenage daughter came out as a lesbian several years ago, one of the first things Caroline Joyce did was to Google, "Can you be gay and be a Christian?" The family was attending a ...

The woman pastor at the center of the Southern Baptist Convention's decision to oust Saddleback Church — the California megachurch founded by pastor and best-selling author Rick Warren — says she will ...

The Southern Baptist Convention voted to remove a Jackson church.Leaders at Calvary Baptist Church said the church was removed from the convention over the role of women in pastors in their church.

The Southern Baptist Convention on Wednesday refused to readmit Saddleback Church, rejecting appeals by the Orange County megachurch after it was ousted for having female pastors. During their annual ...

A proposed amendment to the Southern Baptist Convention's constitution aims to prohibit churches with women pastors. This amendment follows a dispute initiated by a Virginia pastor who challenged the ...

Southern Baptist Convention leadership disfellowshipped Saddleback Church from the convention on Tuesday, concluding a long running debate about one of the largest and most well-known churches in the ...

Newly released court documents depict an image of Southern Baptist leaders’ duplicity in dealing with clergy sex abuse.

Five churches were ousted from the convention for having female pastors. The Southern Baptist Church Executive Committee announced it will oust five churches for having female pastors, including one ...

Last week the Southern Baptist Convention ousted Saddleback Church, one of its largest and highest-profile member churches, from its ranks. The reason? Because after the Orange County megachurch ...