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Southern Baptist Convention
September 20, 2024
Elle Hardy
The Sexual Abuse Scandal That’s Engulfed the Evangelical Movement
A deep, institutional corruption and a near-total aversion to accountability have condemned church leaders to an endless loop of disrepute.
June 12, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Southern Baptists’ Vote on IVF Is Terrifying Sign of What’s to Come
The anti-IVF movement is not a fringe idea on the right anymore.
June 15, 2022
Sarah Stankorb
Reformers Notch a “Fragile” Victory at Southern Baptist Convention Elections
With a new president, and hard-won commitments for survivors of the sex abuse scandal that shook the faithful, the organization takes a first halting step toward healing.
May 30, 2022
Audrey Clare Farley
The Racist Roots of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Sex Scandal “Apocalypse”
America’s preeminent Protestant denomination is tearing itself apart over its leaders’ long-running cover-up of abusers in its ranks. But there’s a deeper reckoning that’s being avoided.
May 30, 2018
Sarah Jones
The Religious Right’s #MeToo Reckoning Is Coming
The Paige Patterson scandal just scratches the surface of a movement that has created a ripe environment for sexual harassment and abuse.
March 20, 2017
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Sarah Posner
Amazing Disgrace
How did Donald Trump—a thrice-married, biblically illiterate sexual predator—hijack the religious right?
August 7, 2012
Amy Sullivan
Richard Land Goes Out On the Bottom
February 21, 2012
Martin Peretz
The Complicated Links Between Mormonism and Judaism
November 3, 2011
Molly Redden
Whatever Happened to the Evangelical-Environmental Alliance?
October 7, 2011
Alec MacGillis
You Talkin' About My Wife, Santorum?
November 8, 2007
Martin Peretz
Wow! Pat Robertson Endorses Rudy Giuliani!
May 21, 2007
Christine Stansell
Partial Law
March 15, 2007
Bradford Plumer
Greener Pastors
May 23, 2005
Alan Wolfe
What God Owes Jefferson
July 7, 1997
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