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Southern Baptists vote to advance a formal ban on churches with women pastors

Thousands of Southern Baptists have voted overwhelmingly to advance a formal ban on churches with women pastors in the nation’s largest conservative evangelical denomination

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Baptist civil war: Southern Baptists move to ban women pastors in high-stakes showdown

Southern Baptist delegates have gathered in Orlando, Florida, for their annual meeting and they're expected to vote on a constitutional amendment to formally ban churches with women pastors

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Southern Baptists debate whether to expand ban on female pastors

The convention has ousted churches in recent years that appointed women to top pastoral positions or asserted the right to do so

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Why the Christian right are preaching that empathy is a sin

As foreign aid stopped and more deportations began, Trump’s then-adviser Elon Musk told podcaster Joe Rogan: ‘The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy’

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Southern Baptists target porn, sports betting, same-sex marriage and 'willful childlessness'

Southern Baptists meeting this week in Dallas will be asked to approve resolutions calling for a legal ban on pornography and reversing the U.S. Supreme Court’s approval of same-sex marriage

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Misogyny fuels MAGA's war on empathy

Elon Musk and the Christian right call empathy "toxic" and "suicidal" — blame their shared misogyny

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5 kinds of American evangelicals and their voting patterns

Polls and analyses from journalists, scholars and even religious leaders often seem to assume that evangelicalism represents a singular religious and social identity. Former president and Republican nominee Donald Trump, who received 81% of the white evangelical vote in the 2016 election, is predicted to garner a majority share of…

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Trump gives two-minute speech to extreme anti-abortion group - without mentioning abortion

Former president’s remarks were broadcast to half-empty room in Indianapolis

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Trump shares article calling him ‘un-Christian’ for sexual assault of E Jean Carroll and affair with Stormy Daniels

The article is titled, ‘A MAGA Idol: Why Trump’s Un-Christian Behavior Makes Him A Hero To Conservative Christians’

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Some critics see Trump's behavior as un-Christian. His conservative Christian backers see a hero

For eight years, Donald Trump has managed to secure the support of many evangelical and conservative Christians despite behavior that has often seemed at odds with teachings espoused by Christ in the Gospels

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A nun commends Dodgers' handling of Pride Night controversy; some archbishops call it blasphemy

The Los Angeles Dodgers, over the decades, have endured fans' diatribes along with their cheers

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Impassioned appeals by ousted churches spotlight Southern Baptists' stance against women pastors

Longtime pastors of two churches have made their final appeals to Southern Baptists, asking for their churches to be let back into the denomination after being ousted for having women pastors

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In a last-ditch effort, longtime Southern Baptist churches expelled for women pastors fight to stay

Two Southern Baptist churches ousted for having women pastors will be appealing that decision at the Southern Baptist Convention's upcoming annual meeting

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For many Southern Baptists, the only campaign question is which Republican candidate to support

Southern Baptists form a core part of the white evangelical Christian bloc that has reliably and overwhelmingly voted Republican in recent elections

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Christian right's radicalization worsens

Showily booting the famous Saddleback Church is the latest example of why the church can't keep young people around

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Midterms reinforce Christian voter trends on abortion, GOP

Evangelical Christians across the U.S. reconfirmed their allegiance to conservative candidates and causes in the midterm elections

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