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Southern Baptist Convention 2021: New president elected
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The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest evangelical group in the U.S. elected a new president Tuesday Ed Litton. Litton, who has championed racial reconciliation, narrowly defeated Mike Stone, the favored far-right candidate. Judy Woodruff discusses the runoff vote with Ed Stetzer, a part of the Southern Baptist Convention and executive director of the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center.
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Judy Woodruff:
The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant Church denomination in the U.S., met this week to elect a new president.
But it was more than just selecting a new leader. The future direction of the denomination itself is at stake. In recent years, and especially the past several months, the convention has been divided by contentious debates over race, politics, gender, and the handling of past sexual abuse cases.
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Americans have fewer Protestant churches to attend, a recently released survey shows. While 3,000 churches were started in the United States, 4,500 closed in the year before COVID-19.
The Lifeway Research 2019 survey covered 34 denominations and groups. Just five years earlier, 4,000 Protestant churches opened while 3,700 closed.
The numbers coincide with a bleak 2020 poll by Gallup that showed a decline of membership of all churches, synagogues, and mosques to less than 50% for the first time in 80 years, data shows.
Gallup started collecting data in 1937, when church membership was 73%, compared to 47% last year, as the country was in the throes of the COVID-19 lockdown. Although most states had stay-at-home orders except for essential services at some point in 2020, 10 states refused to allow church services of any kind.