A religious movement that has so often taken public stands has been unusually quiet since Trump gutted the program to combat ...

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DALLAS — Southern Baptist representatives on Wednesday fended off two efforts to move the staunchly conservative body even ...

Wood will step down at Echo Church at the end of June, as will his wife, Stacie, a teaching pastor at Echo. The Woods would begin in equivalent roles at Saddleback on Sept. 12.

Pastor Andy Wood and his wife, Stacie, left their San Jose church to lead the mega-church’s more than 40,000 congregants worldwide following the retirement of Saddleback founder Rich Warren.

While the church continues to be rejected by the Southern Baptist Executive Committee, Saddleback Church, along with its founder Rick Warren, defended their use of female pastors despite the decision.

Saddleback Church. Bob Riha, Jr./Getty Before the vote, Warren encouraged SBC members to vote against the expulsion “in order to share a common mission,” according to the AP.

Calls for expelling Saddleback Church began in 2021, shortly after Warren ordained three women pastors. The women led worship for children and students and provided visits to hospitals and funerals.

At the 2023 SBC annual meeting here in New Orleans, Southern Baptist voting delegates, or messengers, upheld the ouster of Saddleback Church in Southern California and Fern Creek Baptist Church in ...

Saddleback Church, a Southern California megachurch expelled from the Southern Baptist Convention in February for installing a woman as a "teaching pastor," will appeal the move at the ...

Saddleback Church, the Lake Forest-based megachurch founded by best-selling author Rick Warren, is appealing its ouster from the Southern Baptist Convention for having women pastors on staff ...