After a more than 140-year relationship, First Baptist Church of Jefferson City and the Tennessee Baptist Convention are breaking up over the church's decision to hire the first woman to be its ...

ANDALUSIA -- All the attention paid last weekend to the Rev. Bill Gluck embarrassed the Community Baptist Church pastor ... him to move to a larger church in Tennessee, but Rev. Gluck remained ...

An East Tennessee church's rebuff from the state's Southern Baptist leadership for hiring a woman pastor resonates in Memphis, where Nancy Hastings Sehested's leadership of Prescott Memorial ...