Speaking at a Baptist Women in Ministry event in Dallas, Barr said she expected some Southern Baptists to keep on introducing such resolutions "over and over again so they can make sure and limit ...

Beth Allison Barr challenges the narrative that women have never exercised church authority. In 2021, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler reaffirmed his denomination’s ...

The fallout from a debate in the Southern Baptist Convention about women in ministry, though largely settled at the national level, is causing Southern Baptists at the local level to either double ...

Nikki Hardeman, of Atlanta, an advocacy director for Baptist Women in Ministry, left, Meredith Stone, executive director of Baptist Women in Ministry, center, and Christa Brown, an advocate for ...

What was jolting, given the long history of women’s leadership in children’s ministries, was to see the convention disfellowship First Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia, for having a ...

She pastors Ridgewood Baptist Church (40258). She is the oncoming Board Chair of Baptist Women in Ministry and the Moderator of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Kentucky.

Only "qualified men" can be leaders of Southern Baptist Churches. While the Southern Baptist Convention rejected an all-out constitutional ban on women pastors Wednesday at its convention in ...

The Southern Baptist Convention’s vote ends a multi-year dispute over allowing women pastors, reversing a preliminary vote to ban women pastors last year.

INDIANAPOLIS — The Southern Baptist Convention rejected Wednesday a constitutional ban on women pastors, a major victory for those within the nation's largest Protestant denomination seeking to ...

On Wednesday, the Southern Baptist Convention will vote on whether or not to ban women pastors and their churches from the fellowship. The annual meeting will be held on June 11-12 and ...

Delegates at the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting have narrowly rejected a proposal to enshrine a ban on churches with women pastors in the denomination's constitution.

NPR's Mary Louise talks to professor Beth Allison Barr about the Southern Baptist Convention’s planned vote this week on whether to expel churches where women are pastors.