Southern Baptist Convention Continues to Exclude Women Pastors.
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The Southern Baptist Convention has voted to expel two churches, Saddleback Church and Fern Creek Baptist Church, for having female pastors. The SBC also voted to tighten the ban on women from leadership roles. Saddleback Church, founded by Rick Warren, drew the ire of the SBC after it ordained three women as pastors in 2021. The vote to declare the Saddleback Church "not to be in friendly cooperation" with the denomination was due to “the church continuing to have a female teaching pastor functioning in the office of a pastor," the SBC said in a statement.
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