The Southern Baptist congregation led by Acts 29 president Matt Chandler maintained it hadn’t done anything wrong, infuriating the family of the victim.
The results of a sprawling investigation are coursing through every level of Baptist society, at an already fraught moment for the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
Carissa Beard was helping her daughter pack up her dorm room Sunday night when she got the text from her husband, lead pastor of First Baptist Church of Thurmont in Maryland.