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How right-wing influencers are transforming America’s churches

The Big Bone Baptist Church in Union, Kentucky, US, on Tuesday, May 19, 2026. | Jeffrey Dean / Bloomberg via Getty Images It’s been a pivotal last week for the largest Protestant Christian denomination in the United States. The Southern Baptist Convention took a series of moves to the social and theological right at their annual gathering — a shift urged on by an upstart far-right movement that now appears to be in the driver’s seat. Gathered in Orlando, Florida, Southern Baptist delegates (called “messengers”) elected a hardline conservative to be the congregation’s president, they a...