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Southern Baptists expel Virginia church for believing women can serve as pastors

Indianapolis, US AP Even as they prepare to vote on a formal ban on churches with women pastors, delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to boot one such church from its ranks. Messengers, as voting representatives are known, voted 6,759 to 563 to oust First Baptist Church of Alexandria, a historic Virginia […]

For now, Southern Baptists stick by Hosanna Wong, spoken word artist and pastor

Hosanna Wong

RNS Organisers of a major Southern Baptist pastors conference are standing by their choice to feature a spoken word artist and pastor named Hosanna Wong despite a growing controversy over whether Wong’s presence contradicts the Southern Baptist Convention’s doctrine on women pastors. Wong, who is scheduled to perform a spoken word selection at the June meeting of […]