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February 21, 2012

AP: Southern Baptist panel recommends name add-on: Great Commission Baptists

by Travis Loller
The Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Some Southern Baptists worry that their denomination's name still carries the stigma of a 19th century split with northern Baptists over slavery. Others who fought hard to build the brand and its conservative theology and politics don't want to see it go.

So the idea to add the description of "Great Commission Baptists" to the name of the Southern Baptist Convention might be a compromise that excites almost none of the 16 million who make up the nation's largest Protestant denomination.

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