Southern Baptists narrowly reject formal ban on churches with any women pastors
The vote received support from 61% of the delegates, but it failed to get the required two-thirds supermajority.
The vote received support from 61% of the delegates, but it failed to get the required two-thirds supermajority.
The annual meeting of Southern Baptists this year will include discussions between black and white Baptist Churches about eliminating racism and working together. “…those efforts have been obscured at times as some in the denomination reject calls to be more deliberate about diversity, likening that to racial quotas. And while the 15.3-million-member denomination says about 20 percent of its churches…