Editor’s note: Every Friday, “Weekend Plug-in” features analysis, fact checking and top headlines from the world of faith. (ANALYSIS) 1979 was a highly consequential year for the direction of the Southern Baptist Convention. For the second year in a row, the high-profile annual meeting of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination produced major news. Sex abuse reformsIn response to last month’s bombshell report on sexual abuse in the denomination, delegates “voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to create a way to track pastors and other church workers credibly accused of sex abuse and launch a new task force to oversee further reforms,” as The Associated Press’ Deepa Bharath and Peter Smith report. See related coverage by the Houston Chronicle’s John Tedesco and Robert Downen, two of the journalists whose 2019 “Abuse of Faith” investigation spurred the reforms.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 17, 2022 15:11 UTC