The Tennessee Baptist Convention, the state convention of Southern Baptists, approved a recommendation Tuesday to create a task force to study policies related to sexual abuse prevention. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two Tennessee residents still involved in ministry are on a list containing the names of ministers accused of sexual misconduct, ...

A Baptist congregation in Tennessee is seeking to help an Afghan Christian asylum seeker avoid being sent back to Afghanistan, where she could face persecution for her religious beliefs.

The Southern Baptist Convention recently released a list of 700 sex offenders affiliated with the church over the past 20 years. A PDF of the full list is here. Nashville television station WMSV ...

Memphis, Tenn.-based Baptist Memorial Health Care struck an agreement with the Fayette County (Tenn.) commissioners to create what will be the county’s only hospital. Baptist Memorial and the county ...

Note: This article was updated Thursday to correct the membership status of First Baptist Church in Downtown Chattanooga. Monte Vista Baptist Church in Maryville, Tennessee, has withdrawn from the ...

The Tennessee Baptist Convention has sued a Baptist university in Nashville, demanding that it return $58-million that the religious association contributed to the university over a 54-year period, ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to clarify the distinction between the Tennessee Baptist Convention, which met in Brentwood in November, and the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. The ...