Source: NPR
BY Tori Whitley
Newly elected Southern Baptist Convention President Pastor J. D. Greear is taking over as leader of the biggest Protestant denomination in the U.S. at an especially tough time.
Southern Baptists have been reckoning with their own #MeToo moment. The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary board voted to fire its longtime president, Paige Patterson, last month amid controversy over past counsel he gave women concerning marital abuse and rape.
Southern Baptists are also at a political crossroads, the new SBC president says, and should draw a line between the denomination’s religious message and the linking of that message to a specific political ideology.
During the SBC annual meeting earlier this month — where he got elected as president — Greear tweeted criticism in response to remarks made by the featured speaker, Vice President Mike Pence.
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