Breaking! Bart Barber Wins Reelection, Will Remain SBC President
Current SBC president and Texas pastor Bart Barber easily survived a challenge from Conservative Baptist Network-endorsed pastor Mike Stone, receiving nearly 69% of the vote, and will continue as president of the Southern Baptist Convention for another year.
Besieged by criticism over his position on abortion and the circus-like circumstances surrounding the SBC’s Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force (ARITF), Barber faced an unusual challenge just a year into his tenure (the SBC tradition is for a president to serve two years), made even clearer as 2022’s original establishment candidate Willy Rice throwing his support behind and nominating Mike Stone.
The vote wasn’t particularly close, with messengers voting 7531 for Barber, 3458 for Stone.
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