Southern Baptist representatives fended off two efforts to move the staunchly conservative body even more sharply to the ...

DALLAS (AP) — Southern Baptist representatives on Wednesday fended off two efforts to move the staunchly conservative body even more sharply to the right, giving a vote of confidence to its ...

Willy Rice, senior pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Clearwater, Florida, said he filed the motion to abolish the ERLC with the aim of making it heed member criticisms. Had the measure passed ...

“Because this is how we save it.” Rice, the pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Clearwater, Florida, called his motion a wake-up call to the ERLC, giving it time to reform. A vote to shut down ...