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The ‘Shrinking Baptist Convention’ Is Doubling Down on the Culture Wars
The challenges facing the nation’s largest Protestant denomination mirror those facing the GOP — and both would rather stick to their guns than shift course.
By DAVID SIDERS
07/03/2023 04:30 AM EDT
David Siders is POLITICO's Politics editor.
The battle to redefine America's political parties is underway — far from Washington. David Siders reports from the road.
NEW ORLEANS — No one could accuse the Baptists of excessive cheeriness. Or underplaying their challenges.
Over the clanking of silverware and the smell of breakfast sausages on the sidelines of a major gathering of Southern Baptists here, several hundred pastors and other churchgoers welcomed a roster of speakers ruminating on a “teetering” nation, “sexual insanity,” “all this trans stuff” and the specter that the country’s largest Protestant denomination was...
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