Yet their different approaches are part of an ongoing debate about the future of the 16.2 million-member Southern Baptist Convention: Is there room for the guy in the suit and the guy in the jeans?

A week after the larger Southern Baptist Convention met in Birmingham, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship held its annual general assembly this week at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex. Hey ...

Forty years ago, a pastor from Memphis was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention. He didn’t know it at the time, his wife said, but the election of Adrian Rogers would launch the ...

Yet their different approaches are part of an ongoing debate about the future of the 16.2 million-member Southern Baptist Convention: Is there room for the guy in the suit and the guy in the jeans?

J.D. Greear persuaded his church to drop the word “Baptist” from its name, sell its historic building in Durham, N.C., and move into a local high school. Greear preaches in an untucked collared shirt, ...