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His previous attempts to get the Southern Baptist Convention to denounce critical race theory were unsuccessful. At the convention’s two-day annual meeting in Nashville in June, Ascol first ...

Southern Baptist Convention 2021 and candidates like pastor Mike Stone offer a Trump and critical race theory test for Republican lawmakers heading into 2022 ...

James Merritt, backed by members of the Committee on Resolutions, addresses the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting June 15, 2021, in Nashville, Tennessee. A then member of the committee ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Southern Baptist Convention is electing a new president Tuesday amid a push to wrest control of the denomination by ultraconservatives who say some current leaders are too ...

Attendees await the start of the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting at the Music City Center in Nashville, Tennessee, on June 15, 2021. RNS photo by Kit Doyle ...

Although membership has steadily dropped for more than a decade, the Nashville-based Southern Baptist Convention's more than 14 million members make it the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S.

Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear, center, speaks during the executive committee plenary session at the annual Southern Baptist Convention meeting Monday, June 14, 2021, in ...

From 2019 to 2020, the number of Southern Baptists dropped 3% to 14,089,947, the latest Annual Church Profile compiled by Lifeway Christian Resources shows. The convention had more than 16 million ...

Over 16,000 Southern Baptists have registered to come, double the attendance at the 2019 conference and the largest crowd at an annual meeting in a quarter century.

The Southern Baptist Convention's committee on resolutions received multiple submissions for resolutions on critical race theory, but combined them into the one ultimately heard by messengers ...