/ A Bible at the feet of a congregant at First Baptist Church of Refugio, Texas, in 2019. All is not peaceful inside the 14 million-member Southern Baptist Convention. The largest Protestant denomination will be grappling with race as it chooses its next leader at the annual meeting in Nashville, according to The New Yorker. “What we’re seeing is fissures in the SBC opening, reflect a larger reality for as many as 80 million Americans who consider themselves evangelical Christians,” said Eliza Griswold who wrote about the conflicts for The New Yorker. Griswold told the Standard how the faith was rooted in slavery.