DALLAS — Members of the Southern Baptist Convention, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, will have an important decision to make at their annual meeting this week: who to elect as their next president.
The election comes in the wake of a shocking report detailing how convention leaders mishandled allegations of sexual abuse against clergy members for nearly 20 years.
Among the candidates is Bart Barber, a native of Arkansas who has served as a pastor at First Baptist Farmersville in Collin County, Texas, since 1999.
