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(RNS) — After two days of meetings, the details for an abuse investigation remain unresolved.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — A top Southern Baptist Convention committee agreed Tuesday...

Leaders are still debating whether to hand over privileged materials as survivors and the majority of their own denomination have requested.

Mark Humphrey / AP Southern Baptists are gathered this week in Nashville, Tenn., for an annual meeting that could prove a turning point as the faithful square off on an array of divisive issues that some fear could drive a wedge into the largest Protestant denomination in the United States. Tuesday marks the first full day for the event in which the voting members of the Southern Baptist Convention could tackle high-profile issues including racial discrimination, gender inequality and sexual abuse. The organization is one of the country's most politically influential. It has long aligned its...

The executive committee, which acts on behalf of the convention when it is not in session, shot down an effort to expand the scope of an external review of sex abuse-related allegations leveled against members of the panel. Executive committee member Joe Knott spoke against adding it to the Monday agenda for consideration, saying he did not think it would help anything.  "No one in the Southern Baptist Convention is in any way in favor of any sort of child abuse or anything like that. It's hideous to even contemplate that," Knott said. "To hire a third party, professional investigatory orga...