Southern Baptist Convention to discuss race, gender and sex abuse in seminal meeting

More than 16,000 “messengers” of the gospel are gathering in Nashville this week for the first meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in two years. They’re expected to vote on several hot button issues, including women’s ordination, approaches to racial justice, resolving sexual abuse and electing a new president. As a temperature check from the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S, the results may be an indicator of the ideological direction of American White evangelicalism and will likely cause further division within the group.

News, North AmericaHamil R. HarrisJune 15, 2021Hamil R. Harris, Primary Feature, SBC, SBC 2021, Southern Baptist Convention 2021, Al Mohler, Mike Stone, Critical Race Theory, Paige Patterson, Randy Adams, Secondary FeatureComment

From Abortion And Porn To Women And Race: How Southern Baptist Convention Resolutions Have Evolved

(ANALYSIS) The Southern Baptist Convention will convene its annual meeting on June 15, 2021 amid hemorrhaging membership. Southern Baptists have lost over 2 million members since 2006, with over 400,000 defections in the last year alone. A data-oriented analysis of the SBC’s past resolutions gives insight into the group’s history and trajectory.

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