SBC president

A staunch theological conservative, Bart Barber touts biblical inerrancy, opposes women serving as pastors and supports abortion bans. In running for SBC president, he expressed a desire to be a peacemaker and a unifier.

Jennifer Buck said that in Bart Barber’s attempt “to make me feel important, he actually made me feel that my pursuing this was taking his valuable time from other more important situations."

On Thursday, SBC President Bart Barber took to Twitter to defend the hiring of the SBC’s new ERLC President, Brent Leatherwood, after SBC pastor Dusty Deevers attacked the hire and pro-life work of the SBC.

On Thursday (Sept. 8), Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the 142nd Annual Session of The National Baptist Convention (NBC) in Houston, Texas.

The task force is going to be deciding how to make implementation of best practices for the SBC and [for] our member churches to have all the tools that we need to be able to work to prevent and respond well to sexual abuse.

Bart Barber, pastor of First Baptist Church of Farmersville, Texas, was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) on Tuesday, June 14, after winning in a runoff against Florida pastor Tom Ascol.

In his presidential address to the Southern Baptist Convention, Ed Litton called the recent revelations of sexual abuse and coverup in the denomination a “gut punch."

The breakfast was sponsored by Turning Point USA and Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center, with Turning Point USA’s founder and executive director Charlie Kirk in attendance.