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Southern Baptist Convention

Narrow election wins highlight continued rifts in Southern Baptist Convention. What's next?

Holly Meyer Katherine Burgess
Nashville Tennessean

NASHVILLE — The election of the new Southern Baptist Convention president underlined the rifts in the conservative evangelical network of churches. 

Look at the margin of victory. Alabama pastor Ed Litton, lauded for his racial reconciliation work, defeated Mike Stone, the Georgia pastor backed by the faction trying to push the convention further to the theological right.