{"id":103187,"date":"2021-06-17T17:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T21:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103187"},"modified":"2021-06-17T18:02:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T22:02:42","slug":"rns-ed-litton-a-pastor-known-for-racial-reconciliation-is-surprise-winner-for-sbc-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103187","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Ed Litton, a pastor known for racial reconciliation, is surprise winner for SBC president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Litton, the relatively unknown senior pastor of Redemption Church in Saraland, Alabama, defeated two preeminent rivals to be elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention during a session of the SBC\u2019s annual meeting Tuesday (June 15).<\/p>\n<p>Litton has made racial reconciliation a hallmark of his work since at least the 2014 riots after the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Litton\u2019s election is considered a defeat for hard right conservatives in the Southern Baptist Convention\u2019s recent battles over race, sexual abuse and gender roles.<\/p>\n<p>Litton won in the second round of voting Tuesday, defeating conservative Georgia pastor Mike Stone, a former SBC Executive Committee chair and favorite of the Conservative Baptist Network, which has been critical of SBC leadership, saying it has become captive to liberal ideas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2021\/06\/15\/ed-litton-a-pastor-known-for-racial-reconciliation-is-surprise-winner-for-sbc-president\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This past Sunday, I spoke on Ephesians 2 and the need for ethnic conciliation in light of the Gospel and alluded to some of the challenges modern Christianity was facing. This is incredible news coming out of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/sbc21?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#sbc21<\/a> today. I\u2019m hopeful.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NyfxddPOlJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/NyfxddPOlJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; J.J. Gawlowicz (@jjgawlowicz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jjgawlowicz\/status\/1404993061021700100?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Litton, the relatively unknown senior pastor of Redemption Church in Saraland, Alabama, defeated two preeminent rivals to be elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention during a session of the SBC\u2019s annual meeting Tuesday (June 15). Litton has made<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103187\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[362,168,184,120,95,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baptist","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-parish-ministry","category-racerace-relations","category-science-technology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103189,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103187\/revisions\/103189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}