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Episode: Special Episode: The Southern Baptist Convention's Apocalypse with Robert Downen
Description: This past week a 400-page report outlining the culture of coverup and the widespread abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention was released. The SBC is the country’s largest Protestant denomination with roughly 14 million members. Together Its 45k churches bring in roughly 11 billion dollars annually. The bombshell report provides details of an abuse and cover up scandal in the SBC that goes both to the very top of the organization but also spreads to every corner of its vast network of churches.Robert Downen has been covering the SBC and its various scandals since 2018. After having written do...