The executive committee hired a firm called Guidepost to conduct the investigation. Last June delegates, called “messengers,” to the SBC’s annual convention responded to proliferating reports of inadequate or corrupt responses to sex-abuse allegations by voting overwhelmingly to commission an external review of their own leaders. Its 14 million members help define the culture and ethos of American evangelicalism. It is the nation’s most powerful and influential evangelical denomination, by far.
The SBC is the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, by far.
eastern time, the Southern Baptist Convention released a comprehensive, independent report of its executive committee’s response to decades of sex-abuse allegations. Sign up for David’s newsletter, The Third Rail, here.
