The Baptist faith spread quickly in 19th-century Western North Carolina — where Episcopal and Presbyterian churches had long established themselves — because of the intensity of personal conviction of ...

In 2000, after decades as America's most famous Sunday school teacher, Jimmy Carter decided to cut the symbolic ties binding him to the Southern Baptist Convention. The former president remained ...

VIENNA — Faith Baptist Church of Vienna has announced new pastor, Rick Eaton. Pastor Eaton has lived in Wood County and the surrounding area all his life, apart from four years in the United States ...

The Southern Baptist Convention voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to uphold earlier decisions to expel two churches because they have women pastors. The decision came during the group's annual meeting in ...

(RNS) — ‘One of the things that we prioritized in our work was really reimagining religious freedom through the experiences of marginalized communities,’ said Sabrina E. Dent, the center’s president. ...

PLAINS, Ga. — Before reaching the 1978 peace deal between Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter managed months of intense preparation, high-stakes negotiations at Camp David ...

Rev. Clinton Miller, pastor of Brown Memorial Baptist Church and a pillar of Brooklyn’s faith community, is remembered for ...

“We are a nation of communities…a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky ...