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Several Black pastors break with the Southern Baptist Convention over a statement on race Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Michelle Boorstein © Butch Dill/Butch Dill Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear speaks on a panel discussion about racial reconciliation during the SBC’s annual meeting on June 11, 2019, in Birmingham, Ala. (Butch Dill/Religion News Service) A sweeping recent statement about racial theory from Southern Baptist leaders has prompted at least four Black pastors to publicly break from the denomination and has triggered high-level, urgent meetings about whether Black evangelicals have a place in the Southern Baptist Convention. Some think the statement, issued in a year full of racial tension, could speed an exodus of Black members and leaders from the country’s largest Protestant denomination.

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