Wright exhorts Baptists to unity

The “elephant in the room” in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is the tension between “traditional” Southern Baptists and “Calvinists,” SBC President Bryant Wright said in his message at the SBC annual meeting June 19 in New Orleans. Wright, pastor of Johnson Ferry Baptist Church, Marietta, Ga., for more than 30 years, said church planting was not “cool” in his…