Southern Baptist

Willy Rice, senior pastor of Calvary Church in Clearwater, drew support from groups that say Southern Baptist Convention leadership has gone “woke” on issues ranging from race to gender to immigration.

The largest Protestant denomination in the country closed its annual meeting Wednesday with a partisan speech from the vice president. The group's new leader quickly sought to distance it from Pence.

The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, which made Patterson "president emeritus" last week, said it had received new information about his handling of a sexual abuse claim against a student.