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Friday, December 31, 2021

High-profile disagreements around race and liberal drift

From CT senior news editor Kate Shellnutt: I was one of more than 20,000 people who attended the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting in downtown Nashville last June, the biggest crowd in 25 years. It was my first time at a conference since the pandemic started. Readers sometimes wonder why we write about Southern Baptists so much. They have their particularities—say, a committee to appoint people to a committee on committees (really)—but as the largest Protestant denomination, I find that many of the big dynamics we see in the SBC get echoed in other churches as well.

That proved especially true this year, with high-profile disagreements around race and liberal drift and clashing philosophies over abuse investigations. My hope is that when I write about Southern Baptists, these stories don’t just spotlight a denomination with big numbers, big names, and an alphabet soup of acronyms. They should prompt all of us to consider the implications in our own communities and churches.

The Southern Baptists’ internal fight over abuse investigations was No. 3 on our list of the top 10 CT news stories of the year. See what made No. 1.

The 20 most-read pieces at CT in 2021 included CEO Timothy Dalrymple’s analysis of the “splintering of the evangelical soul,” Tish Harrison Warren’s reflection on the January 6 mob at the US Capitol, and news reports about Ravi Zacharias, Mark Driscoll, Charles Stanley, Beth Moore, David Platt, and Francis Chan.

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