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Russell Moore leaves Southern Baptist leadership, but denomination’s troubles remain Southern Baptists have long been able to find enough consensus to cooperate on missions. In recent years, they've become less cooperative because of debates over race, politics and the role of women in the church. FILE - In this June 14, 2017, file photo, Russell Moore, then-president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, speaks at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Phoenix. At an SBC meeting in late February 2021, there was a report by an executive committee task force criticizing t...

The Southern Baptist Convention's ominous cracks Today's best articles Daily business briefing Solving COVID newsletter Beth Moore has left the Southern Baptist Convention. "I am still a Baptist," the prolific Bible study author said in an interview with Religion News Service published Tuesday, "but I can no longer identify with Southern Baptists." The import of this departure, as manyhaveobserved, is difficult to explain if you don't already know who Moore is. She's something like the book club leader version of Reese Witherspoon for conservative evangelical Christians, except she also writ...

Alabama pastor Ed Litton, known for racial reconciliation work, joins SBC presidential race So far, four Southern Baptist leaders, each representing a different segment of the SBC, plan to run for president of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. Members of the Southern Baptist Convention and guests lift their hands in prayer during the SBC’s annual meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, on June 11, 2019. RNS photo by Butch Dill January 21, 2021 (RNS) — The Rev. Ed Litton, an Alabama pastor known for his work on racial reconciliation, will be nominated for president of ...

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 S...

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,...