A top administrative body of the Southern Baptist Convention has selected its first permanent leader in nearly two-and-a-half years. Jeff Iorg will become the new president of Executive Committee of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination in May.
FILE - Delegates vote at the Southern Baptist Convention at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Tuesday, June 13, 2023. A top Southern Baptist administrative body has selected its first permanent leader in nearly two-and-a-half years, a time when it has navigated a tumult of controversies ranging from a
Iorg had recently announced plans to retire from the seminary but agreed to be considered for the Executive Committee post, which he will start on May 13.Firing of Ohtani’s interpreter highlights how sports betting is still illegal in CaliforniaIorg said he is grateful for the denomination he is serving. In a Thursday news conference, he said he “came to faith in Jesus Christ because of the witness of a Southern Baptist church” and has degrees from a denominational college and seminaries.
The waiver raised fears it would heighten the denomination’s legal liability, but it also gave Guidepost Solutions, the firm conducting the investigation, a more candid look. Guidepost’s 2022 report concluded that top SBC officials responded to abuse survivors with “resistance, stonewalling and even outright hostility.”
Asked at the news conference whether he had plans for implementing any of the 17 recommendations for the Executive Committee in the Guidepost report in relation to the abuse crisis, Iorg said he would need to re-read the report in detail and familiarize himself with the recommendations. “I take that report very seriously, and I think it deserves consideration and action,” he said. “I’m just not prepared to say today how I would respond on any individual one of those things.
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