Carter, Clinton Meet With Baptists to Plan for New `Covenant’

RNS’ Adelle M. Banks reports on the “celebration of a new Baptist covenant,” a gathering to be held next January at the Carter Center in Atlanta which will bring together 40 Baptist organizations, as well as former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, to “emphasize their common goals.”

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“Those of you who don’t follow the ins and outs of various denominations in America, or did not have both the privilege and the burden to be raised in the Baptist church, cannot possibly appreciate how different this meeting is from what has gone on in our denomination the last 30 years,” Clinton said at the news conference.