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The newly elected leaders of a top Southern Baptist Convention committee had all supported a more transparent investigation into allegations the denomination mishandled sex abuse reports and mistreated survivors.
The Southern Baptist Convention voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to create a way to track pastors and other church workers credibly accused of sex abuse and launch a new task force to oversee further reforms in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
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Bart Barber, pastor of First Baptist Church in rural Farmersville, takes the helm of a convention that has been scarred by a sexual abuse scandal.
A pastor has warned attendees of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Annual Meeting against using “politics,” “social justice” and “music” to grow their congregations instead of the Gospel.
With a new president, and hard-won commitments for survivors of the sex abuse scandal that shook the faithful, the organization takes a first halting step toward healing.