This wasn’t Johnny Berry’s plan. But he trusts a larger one.

The late evangelist is larger than life with monuments, markers, and museums.

The Alabama pastor, known for his inclusion of women and work on racial justice, beat out Mike Stone of the Conservative Baptist Network in a runoff.

One is known for his involvement in racial reconciliation efforts, and the other is a founding member of the anti-“woke” Conservative Baptist Network.

In other states, voters approve “stand your ground” in churches and legalize marijuana.

Baptist leaders said the controversy was not good for his church.

Church of the Highlands’s expulsion in Birmingham has some pastors worried about growing scrutiny.

Yet at the height of my segregationist fervor, God showed me mercy.

In the Black Belt—once cleared for cotton plantations—rural black communities suffer the consequences of poor land stewardship.

Though the denomination is the least likely in the US to administer church discipline, critical voices have been swirling around its highest-ranking politician.