LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Southern Baptists ended their national meeting and quietly left their host town by avoiding the controversial political pronouncements that have marked past conventions.

Like most people born and raised in Biloxi, Miss., theologian Russell Moore grew up about 10 minutes from the Gulf of Mexico.

If someone stops you on a hiking trail and hands you a free bottle of water in the coming weeks, it could be a random act of Southern Baptist Convention kindness.

If Southern Baptists gather for a seminar on what Mormons believe, the odds are good that one of the teachers will be a former member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Five years after Phoenix broke ground on the $600 million transformation of Civic Plaza into a major meetings venue able to compete with those in other tourism-focused destinations, the renamed Phoenix Convention Center is ready for its official debut.

As many as 10,000 delegates have begun gathering in the Valley for the this year’s national gathering of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. It is the first time Arizona has hosted the annual event.

The Living Christmas Tree at Foothills Baptist Church in Ahwatukee Foothills has built up a strong following in the years since the production began.

The Living Christmas Tree at Foothills Baptist Church in Ahwatukee Foothills has built up a strong following in the years since the production began.

Residents of a Scottsdale neighborhood called Cox Heights 4 are invited to a public meeting tonight to discuss new improvements to the area.

Members of churches of many Christian denominations from across the United States will be praying as the nation approaches Election Day, Nov. 6. The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) put together and culminated a massive pre-election prayer vigil to go until voters head to the polls election day.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Under the conventional wisdom about Southern Baptists -- a group that has in the past condemned Mormonism as a cult and its followers as non-Christian -- devout Baptist Rex Rish should quickly dismiss the idea of voting for a Mormon for president.

June always means church denominations are holding their national conventions. And it typically means new fights over homosexuality, women’s roles and protecting orthodoxy at all cost. You can count on it.

Five years after Phoenix broke ground on the $600 million transformation of Civic Plaza into a major meetings venue able to compete with those in other tourism-focused destinations, the renamed Phoenix Convention Center is ready for its official debut.

The Scottsdale City Council on Tuesday unanimously rejected SonRise Community Church’s plans for a Christian school that met with forceful opposition.

The Scottsdale City Council on Tuesday unanimously rejected SonRise Community Church’s plans for a Christian school that met with forceful opposition.

PLANO, Texas - Even before sunrise, believers and nonbelievers alike poured into movie theaters around the nation on Ash Wednesday for the opening of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ."

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A church pastor said this week he and his congregation are done parrying neighbors’ attacks against plans to build a Christian elementary school in the north Scottsdale desert.

April 28, 2005

PLANO, Texas - The people streaming out of the movie theater looked as if they'd just attended a wake - and many said they felt as if they had.

After years of avoiding direct mention of his religion, Mitt Romney will open up about his Mormon faith as he accepts the Republican nomination for president.

The top-selling Bible in North America will undergo its first revision in 25 years, promising to reopen a contentious debate about changing gender terms in the sacred text.

ATHENS, Greece - More than a decade ago on an Aegean island, the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians made a startling proposition: That pollution and other attacks on the environment could be considered sins.

SonRise Community Church failed to persuade Scottsdale to allow a school on its stretch of northern desert, so the congregation is taking its request to a higher power: Federal court.