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Two Pastors Join SBC President Race

Ed Litton and Mike Stone Albert Mohler has new competition in the race to become the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Two pastors, Ed Litton and Mike Stone, accepted upcoming nominations in the past week, each representing different emphases for the future of the SBC as the denomination grapples with an escalating debate over its approach to race. Mohler has been in the running for over a year; the SBC canceled its previous election along with its 2020 annual meeting due to COVID-19. Mohler is already a big name in the SBC. The president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, he’s currently the longest-serving entity head in the denomination and regularly weighs in on current issues on his daily podcast,

3rd Candidate Joins Race for SBC President

3rd Candidate Joins Race for SBC President Less than a week after a pastor announced a challenge to Al Mohler for president of the Southern Baptist Convention, another pastor also joined the race. But unlike the other two candidates who spent the last year promoting Donald Trump and attacking Critical Race Theory, the latest candidate instead worked for racial reconciliation and criticized Mohler’s anti-CRT efforts. Screengrab as Ed Litton preaches at the 2019 SBC Pastors’ Conference in Birmingham, Alabama. Ed Litton, pastor of Redemption Church in the Mobile, Alabama, suburb of Saraland, will be nominated by Fred Luter, who was the first and, so far, only Black SBC president. Litton previously served various SBC leadership roles, including as SBC First Vice President two decades ago, as president of the SBC Pastors’ Conference, on the Resolutions Committee, and on seminary boards.

Pastor Dwight McKissic says he s leaving SBTC - The Christian Post

When leaders in the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention rebuked him for supporting missionaries praying and praising in tongues in 2006, prominent Southern Baptist Convention Pastor Dwight McKissic said he almost quit.

Mohler Faces SBC Presidential Challenge from the Right

Mohler Faces SBC Presidential Challenge from the Right After 14 controversy-filled months as the only announced candidate for the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention, Al Mohler will face at least one challenger in the vote this June. On Wednesday (Jan. 13), a Baptist pastor from Georgia announced his candidacy to challenge Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Mike Stone, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Blackshear, Georgia, and immediate past chair of the SBC Executive Committee, immediately drew support from some in SBC life who have attacked Mohler for not being conservative enough, especially on issues of race. And Stone and his supporters argued the SBC needs a pastor not a seminary head to serve as president.

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