‘Take the Ship’: Conservatives Aim to Commandeer Southern Baptists - The New York Times
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added by Jonathan Simcoe · updated 2y ago
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added by Jonathan Simcoe · updated 2y ago
The outcome has the potential to permanently split an already divided evangelical America. Like the Trump movement within the Republican Party, a populist groundswell within the already conservative evangelical denomination is trying to install an anti-establishment leader who could wrench the church even further to the right, while opponents conte
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Mr. Nelson is not alone. He is part of an ultraconservative populist uprising of pastors from Louisiana to California threatening to overtake the country’s largest Protestant denomination.
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