Steve Gaines, a Tennessee megachurch pastor who served as Southern Baptist Convention president from 2016 to 2018, died Friday (March 20), his former congregation announced. He was 68. “It’s with a ...

The Rev. Michael Griffin walked between pews littered with ashes and charred debris as he surveyed the damage from an early-morning fire last week that nearly destroyed his century-old church, one of ...

Gaines, a former Bellevue Baptist Church pastor and Southern Baptist Convention president, has died after a two-year battle ...

The reckoning for the labor leader’s sex abuse was swift in Fresno, Calif., the heart of the Central Valley region where the ...

SBC, LCMS, ACNA, CREC, and Global Methodist gatherings in 2026 will weigh issues including abuse investigations and sexual ethics.

More Democrats are openly running on faith, as progressive clergy and other religious candidates push back on the idea that Christianity belongs to the right ...

Under Gaines' leadership, Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova consistently ranked on the top 100 largest churches in the U.S.

One grew up in rural Haiti amid the poverty and violence of his beautiful but troubled Caribbean nation. The other grew up in Michigan as a self-described “blue-collar farm kid” from Middle America.

Steve Gaines, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention and former pastor of Gardendale’s First Baptist Church, has ...

However, a deepening economic crisis, shortages of basic goods and the emergence of low-cost synthetic drugs have combined to ...

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A story BNG first reported more than three weeks ago came to a disheartening conclusion Sunday, March 8, when Chris Ogden resigned.