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Under pressure to fight child sex abuse, the Southern Baptist Convention’s executive committee said Tuesday that the denomination should not create its own database to help churches identity predators or establish an office to field abuse claims.The...
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Former President Jimmy Carter implored fellow Baptists on Saturday to look beyond a range of doctrinal disputes that have split the denomination, and urged them to...
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In this photo released by the Baptist Press, Johnny Hunt, a native American from Woodstock, Ga, was elected new president of the Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 in Indianapolis. Hunt, 55, prevailed in a crowded field of six,...
