More than 10,000 voting representatives have gathered in Indianapolis for the opening of the Southern Baptist Convention’s two-day annual meeting. They are expected to debate whether to amend their constitution to ban churches with women pastors, whether in lead or associate roles. The measure received preliminary approval last year.
FILE - An Attendee holds up a ballot during the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting in Anaheim, Calif., Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Thousands will gather in Indianapolis , June 11-12, 2024, for the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. , where they will vote on whether to ban churches with women pastors and deliberate yet again on how to respond to sexual abuse within churches.
Participants said that of the hundreds of messengers filing by, reactions ranged from sneers to subtle thumbs-up signs to a few voicing “thank you” out loud.Christopher Bell wins the rain-shortened Coca-Cola 600 for his 8th NASCAR Cup victoryJoining them was Christa Brown, who has long advocated for fellow survivors of sexual abuse in Southern Baptist churches and criticized the denomination’s resistance to reforms, an effort she has chronicled in a new memoir, “Baptistland.
The SBC can’t tell its independent churches what to do, but it can decide whether they are in or out. Since 2023, it has ousted some churches with women in pastoral positions, includingappeared in a videotaped message to attendees of a staunchly anti-abortion conservative group that met Monday next door to the convention center. Trump appealed to the attendees for their votes.
An Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force recently concluded its work. While it has provided a curriculum for training churches on preventing and responding to abuse, it has not achieved theAbuse survivor and advocate Megan Lively on Tuesday morning moved that the convention task the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission with raising awareness about abuse and providing resources on preventing and responding to it. She is a delegate from Peace Church in Wilson, North Carolina.
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