The Southern Baptist Convention on Feb.21, 2023 ousted its second-largest congregation -- Saddleback Church, the renowned California megachurch founded by pastor and best-selling author Rick Warren -- for having a woman pastor, the Fox website reports.
The vote by the convention's Executive Committee culminates growing tension between the nation's largest Protestant denomination -- which officially opposes women as pastors -- and a congregation whose story has been one of the biggest church-growth successes of modern times.
The committee cited Saddleback's having "a female teaching pastor functioning in the office of pastor."
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