It's extremely unusual to read a headline like that these days. Baptist church consultant Thom Rainer writes in "Breakout Churches" that the average tenure of pastors is 3.6 years. Church statistician ...

It can be taken as a bad sign when a thriller writer feels the need to explain in an afterword that he sincerely tried to make his subject less complicated. Fair warning then that Richard North ...

The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is ready to give its graduates the ability to preach straight from the Bible. On Oct. 21, the seminary’s board of trustees approved a new School of ...

A prominent Southern Baptist leader recently fired from a Texas seminary for responding inappropriately when women told him they were raped will not deliver the convention sermon at the big ...

Prominent Southern Baptist leader Paige Patterson was removed Wednesday from his job as president of his seminary amid a backlash from thousands of women, but that doesn’t mean his role in the ...

He was revered as one of the greats within the African-American church; the ‘Godfather’ of expository preaching. Loved and admired by many nationwide, the Rev. Dr. Albert Louis Patterson Jr. was more ...

The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary board of trustees voted to oust influential leader Paige Patterson after it emerged he once told a seminar student who said she was sexually assaulted not ...

When Bishop Gilbert Patterson began his sermon at the Temple of Deliverance church in Memphis one recent Sunday, his voice started off soft and velvety. He compared the struggles of Israel's King ...

Southern Baptist leader Paige Patterson has withdrawn from giving a prominent sermon at the denomination’s annual meeting next week, his chief of staff at Patterson’s former seminary said Friday on ...