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Meeting in Anaheim, California, more than 8,000 Southern Baptist Convention members recently gathered for their annual summit. Topping the agenda was how to deal with sexual abuse and the election of a new president. Both received overwhelming approval.

Religion editor Frank Lockwood, joins Capitol & Scott host Lara Farrar to share insights into this year’s annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention.

A collection of clergy gathered to talk about the state of their denomination during their annual religious convention. The conversation of race came up

The new president of the Southern Baptist Convention said Wednesday he will accelerate sex abuse reforms in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.

The creation of an “Offender Information System” was one of the key recommendations in a report released Sunday detailing how leaders stonewalled victims.

ANAHEIM, California -- The new president of the Southern Baptist Convention said Wednesday he will accelerate sex abuse reforms in the nation's largest Protestant denomination.

Newly elected Southern Baptist Convention President Bart Barber has rejected claims that the complementarian theology of the denomination was a major factor in its sex abuse scandal.

The banners, buttons and book displays are gone, as are most of the thousands of Southern Baptist Convention lay members, pastors, and administrators who filled a meeting hall at the Anaheim Convention Center here with two days of praise music and balloting on the movement's future.

The new president of the Southern Baptist Convention said Wednesday he will accelerate sex abuse reforms in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.

The Southern Baptist Convention has voted overwhelmingly to create a way to track pastors and other church workers credibly accused of sex abuse. Delegates also agreed to launch a new