The Southern Baptists of Texas Convention ... and some state conventions have ousted churches for their stance on women in ministry. Other churches have voluntarily left the SBC in response ...

"We are also grieved that this vote has ever even taken place," Meredith Stone, executive director of Baptist Women in Ministry, a nonprofit with partners across various Baptist denominations ...

Nikki Hardeman, of Atlanta, Ga., an advocacy director for Baptist Women in Ministry (left), Meredith Stone, executive director of Baptist Women in Ministry (center), and Christa Brown, an advocate ...