The handwritten resolution, signed by 116 Baptist ministers from Massachusetts who called slavery “repugnant,” was thought to ...

Following retirement of Forrest Harris, Sr., after 26 years as American Baptist president, Sunday School Publishing Board exec to serve in interim.

Cyrus Wilson, valedictorian, speaks during the American Baptist commencement ceremony at Fifteenth Avenue Baptist Church in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday, May 15, 2025.

(RNS) — On Saturday (Nov. 4), the American Baptist Churches USA became the last of the major mainline Protestant denominations to appoint a female leader by naming the Rev. Gina Jacobs-Strain as ...

GROTON, Mass. (AP) — Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th century journals. Opening it, she found a scroll in ...

American Baptist commencement ceremony May 15 features Civil Rights hero and former American Baptist president Bernard ... said at the graduation at Fifteenth Avenue Baptist Church in Nashville.

SOUTH BEND — Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church, the city’s first African-American Baptist church, donated by the Studebaker brothers and moved to its current location before the turn of the ...

Bernard Lafeyette, a Civil Rights hero and former American Baptist president, speaks during the American Baptist commencement ceremony at Fifteenth Avenue Baptist Church in Nashville, Tenn ...