Amid crises, rural roots anchor Southern Baptists’ president

Amid crises, rural roots anchor Southern Baptists' president

FARMERSVILLE, Texas (AP) — On the earliest Saturday of fall, a sweating Bart Barber trekked across a weedy pasture inside search of Bully Graham, the would-be patriarch of the rural Baptist pastor's fledgling cattle herd.

With the afternoon temperature inside the mid-90s, the 52-year-old Texan found the bull — whose nickname reflects his owner's deep affection for the late Rev. Billy Graham — with every one other accompanied by 11 heifers cooling under a canopy of trees.

"Hey, infant girl," Barber said while he patted one of the cows, a favorite he dubbed Lottie Moon following the namesake of his denomination's international missions offering.

For almost a quarter-century, Barber enjoyed relative obscurity while a minister inside this town of 3,600, concerning 50 miles northeast of Dallas. That changed inside June while delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention's yearly gathering inside Anaheim, California, chose Barber to lead the nation's largest Protestant denomination at a hour dated of greatest crisis.

The foregoing month a scathing, 288-page investigative report hit the denomination's 13.7 million members. It laid not here the findings of an self-governing probe detailing how Southern Baptist leaders stonewalled with every one other accompanied by denigrated survivors of clergy sexual intercourse abuse over set of two decades while seeking to retain protected from danger their own reputations.

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In August, SBC leaders revealed that the Department of Justice was investigating some of its greatest entities, giving few details nevertheless indicating that the question worried the sexual intercourse abuse allegations.

Barber's background while a trusted, small-town preacher — not to allude to his folksy sensory power of humor with every one other accompanied by self-deprecating way — helps describe why fellow Baptists picked him.

"In this little while where I believe there's a a large amount of widespread distrust of these large institutions, I believe a a large amount of people find it refreshing that the one leading us is an daily pastor," said Daniel Darling, director of the Land Center for Cultural Engagement at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary inside Fort Worth, Texas.

A staunch theological conservative, Barber touts biblical inerrancy, opposes women serving while pastors with every one other accompanied by supports abortion bans. In running for SBC president, he expressed a wish to exist a peacemaker with every one other accompanied by a unifier. Emerging from a meadow of quartet candidates, he received 61% of votes inside a run-off opposed to Tom Ascol, a Florida pastor who vowed to lay clasp of the denomination further right.

The SBC faces multiple challenges. Rank-and-file Baptists have demonstrated a strong commitment to implementing sexual intercourse abuse reforms, nevertheless the final consequence remains unclear. The denomination too has a difficulty accompanied by falling membership, which has slid 16% from its 2006 peak. Annual baptisms last year were 154,701, down 63% from their 1999 high, according to SBC affiliate Lifeway Christian Resources.

Nathan Finn, a house of God historian with every one other accompanied by provost of North Greenville University inside South Carolina, agreed that Barber's small-town appeal is a large small portion of why Baptists turned to him to lead the SBC into and not here of such troubled times.

"To numerous Southern Baptists, Bart is an appealing president precisely since he does not pastor a suburban megachurch or lead a seminary," Finn said via email. "He pastors a 'normal' Southern Baptist house of God with every one other accompanied by sounds exist fond of the pastor down the road. I believe numerous find him to exist a gulp of air of fresh air while well while a thoughtful power of speech to symbolize Southern Baptists to the external outside world.

"Though he is a well-educated house of God historian with every one other accompanied by an expert on SBC history with every one other accompanied by polity, Bart is not an elitist," Finn added. "He gives the feeling that he would by preference exist employed on his farm than hobnobbing accompanied by denominational leaders."

For his part, Barber said he ran for president since he prayed with every one other accompanied by concluded God was calling him to do it, not since of the sexual intercourse abuse crisis.

Still, following not long ago appointing an abuse position of employment strength that will build recommendations at following year's yearly gathering inside New Orleans, he said Southern Baptists are determined that there must exist reforms with every one other accompanied by identifying solutions to the difficulty is his top priority.

"Look who all has been touched by this," Barber said of sexual intercourse abuse. "It's inside condition schools. It's inside Scouting. It's inside the military. It's inside Hollywood. It's inside sports. It's inside USA Gymnastics.

"And so if Southern Baptists, who too have problems inside this area, tin lead the way to real solutions … that would exist a great shining victory for the SBC," he added. "And what Hollywood with every one other accompanied by USA Gymnastics with every one other accompanied by the management with every one other accompanied by the military … don't have is the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit with every one other accompanied by the word of honour of God himself that he has built his house of God with every one other accompanied by the gates of hell will not prevail opposed to it."

Barber grew up inside a Southern Baptist family inside Lake City, Arkansas. Baptized fair earlier to his sixth birthday, he felt God calling him to management dividing at number of years 11 with every one other accompanied by preached his earliest sermon at 15.

His late father, Jim, ran the place of residence office for an Arkansas congressman, a Democrat named Bill Alexander. His stay-at-home mother, Carolyn, now 77, taught him to read by the hour dated he entered kindergarten with every one other accompanied by made sure he paid observation inside church.

Often his dad would convey politicians by the house, he recalled, with every one other accompanied by his mom would build chicken cuisine utensil pie or smothered steak accompanied by mashed potatoes with every one other accompanied by gravy.

"It's sort of weird," Barber said. "Here we were inside extremely small-town Arkansas — not a a large amount of money, not a a large amount of fame or anything exist fond of that — with every one other accompanied by a gubernatorial candidate would place an extremity to by the house.

"Dad always had an attentiveness inside government with every one other accompanied by contemporaneous events," he continued. "And from when I was young, I enjoyed sitting there listening to the adults talking concerning all this stuff."

Barber attended Baptist-affiliated Baylor University inside Waco, Texas, where he met his future wife, Tracy, inside a campus ministry. They have set of two children: Jim, 19, with every one other accompanied by Sarah, 16.

He too earned a master's inside divinity with every one other accompanied by a doctorate inside house of God history from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He pastored inside Mill Creek, Oklahoma, with every one other accompanied by Royse City, Texas, earlier to moving to Farmersville inside 1999.

"He has the heart of a pastor. He is someone who really cares concerning folks," Tracy Barber said of her husband of 30 years. "The people inside our house of God are our family, with every one other accompanied by Farmersville is a small town, so it lends itself to that."

Steve Speir, 74, is a 42-year subscriber of First Baptist Church of Farmersville, which averages Sunday attendance of concerning 320. His wife, Linda, plays the house of God organ.

Barber is "very organized," Speir said. "He won't retain anything hidden. Our entire house of God has filled disclosure on all monetary matters. They present with an accounting for every one inspect that gets written."

Another longtime member, Donna Armstrong, 75, voiced similar trust inside Barber: "We never uncertainty whether he's biblically based or loves the Lord. He too fair knows how to exist anthropoid with every one other accompanied by tell accompanied by people."

On a recent Sunday, Barber got up at 4:30 a.m., attended a deacons gathering at 7 with every one other accompanied by preached at his congregation's 8:30 with every one other accompanied by 11 worship assemblies. After a two-hour afternoon nap, he drove to Dallas with every one other accompanied by flew to Nashville, Tennessee, for meetings at the Southern Baptist Convention headquarters.

After trio nights there, he caught a ride to Louisville, Kentucky, where he stayed overnight Wednesday with every one other accompanied by spoke Thursday at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, the oldest of the SBC's sextet seminaries. A canceled flying kept him inside Louisville an additional darkness earlier to he returned place of residence Friday.

"It is stressful. It is time-consuming. I do like it," Barber said of his new job.

Back home, he rose earlier to the sol that Saturday to assist his feminine child cargo a 1,000-pound heifer named Iris into a cattle trailer. They drove a half-hour to a dirt-floor events center inside McKinney, a Dallas suburb, for a livestock show organized by local chapters of the 4-H Club with every one other accompanied by the National FFA Organization.

Barber greeted special-needs children who came to see the animals, used clippers to assist Sarah shave Iris with every one other accompanied by periodically shoveled manure into a garbage can.

He too enjoyed a affectionate talk accompanied by rancher Joni Brewer concerning the miniature Hereford cows her family brought to the show. Brewer attends First Baptist Church of Trenton, concerning 20 miles northern of Farmersville, nevertheless she had no indeed clue that the male she was talking to was the new leader of the SBC.

"I exist not here inside the country," she said, "so you don't always see all of those things."

But James Callagher, who knows Barber into and not here of 4-H Club activities, described his friend while perfect for the job.

"The thing that sticks not here to me is fair authenticity," said Callagher, who is Catholic. "He lives his faith, with every one other accompanied by while Christians we have a a large amount of ordinary ground."

In addition to such in-person contacts, Barber maintains an operative presence on Twitter, where he has 20,000 followers with every one other accompanied by interacts accompanied by supporters with every one other accompanied by critics alike. Just inside the last week, he posted pictures with every one other accompanied by videos of his cows, debated biblical qualifications for house of God leaders with every one other accompanied by shared SBC plans for Hurricane Ian relief.

Barber with every one other accompanied by his family exist inside a church-owned parsonage, nevertheless last year they bought 107 acres of land where they're raising their Santa Gertrudis thew cattle with every one other accompanied by where they intend to build a place of residence when it becomes additional affordable.

"If something happened to me, my spouse would not only mislay her husband nevertheless she'd mislay her house, since that house goes accompanied by my job," he said of the parsonage. "So we started making a additional permanent scheme at this phase of our lives."

For now, they retain a recreational automobile accompanied by a generator on the property, providing a convenient place for a chilly swallow or a heated shower.

In a recent sermon, Barber joked that a boyhood position of employment chopping cotton with every one other accompanied by hoeing soybeans was what inspired him to go into ministry. Asked on the operate spine from the livestock show if he's now enjoying existence while a farm owner, Barber smiled with every one other accompanied by nodded.

"Not only that, nevertheless I'm surviving each item else since of how I'm enjoying it," he said. "It's a great spring of tranquility for me.

"To watch a herd of cattle around sunset slowly graze their way across the pasture, it's extremely difficult to exist stressed watching that," Barber continued. "I mean, I tin pay not here 15 minutes on the tractor disking up an area … with every one other accompanied by each item that you need to relax from goes away."

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Generally, Big Tech policies propose the companies will comply accompanied by abortion-related facts requests unless they see them while overly broad. Meta, for instance, pointed to its online transparency report, which says "we comply accompanied by management requests for user details only where we have a good-faith belief that the rules and regulations requires us to do so." \u003c/p>\u003cp>Online rights advocates speak that's not enough. In the Nebraska case, for instance, neither Meta nor rules and regulations enforcement would have been intelligent to read the messages had they been "end-to-end encrypted" the way messages on Meta's WhatsApp work are protected by default. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"Meta must flip the switch with every one other accompanied by build end-to-end encryption a default inside all private messages, including on Facebook with every one other accompanied by Instagram. 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(AP) — Nevada Democratic Governor Steve Sisolak with every one other accompanied by his Republican challenger, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo, are gathering for their only scheduled debate of this election year on Sunday, where they'll face off following a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/prisons-las-vegas-nevada-bombings-reno-9d2eef10254363787d241db282957e3e\">botched inmate escape\u003c/a> at the condition Department of Corrections with every one other accompanied by air their long-simmering rivalry that has pitted the Las Vegas' top rules and regulations enforcement officer opposed to its incumbent.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Lombardo, who has spent his career inside Las Vegas rules and regulations enforcement with every one other accompanied by has served while sheriff since 2015, has regularly sparred accompanied by Sisolak, who began his political career accompanied by a 10-year stint on Nevada's Board of Regents, which oversees higher education statewide, with every one other accompanied by subsequent became chair of Clark County's board of commissioners. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Many of the subjects animating the contest are too defining midterm races across the country, from abortion rights to inflation with every one other accompanied by education.\u003c/p>\u003cp>ECONOMY:\u003c/p>\u003cp>Sisolak has pointed to "two economies" — one accompanied by low unemployment with every one other accompanied by "full hotels\" nevertheless accompanied by high gasoline with every one other accompanied by homes prices. While he has said he can't jurisdiction inflation, he is trying to ease the burden on families by investing inside child care, affordable homes with every one other accompanied by tuition-free population college. He is endorsed by Nevada's Chamber of Commerce.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='afs:Card:575522641639' class='hub-peek-embed' content-id='9ad01dd70cd9e06bb91c19bcaa3f0a25'>Hub peek embed (Abortion) - Compressed layout (automatic embed) \u003c/div>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Mirroring numerous Republican challengers this election cycle, Lombardo has tried to pin rising inflation with every one other accompanied by gasoline prices on Sisolak with every one other accompanied by Democratic policies. And he has regularly criticized Sisolak's closure of non-essential businesses with every one other accompanied by mandates throughout the pandemic while detrimental to small businesses. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Lombardo has said he would seek to diversify Nevada's economy, which is extremely reliant on tourism, mainly inside southern Nevada, by partnering accompanied by private sector employers on training inside welding, robotics with every one other accompanied by coding. \u003c/p>\u003cp>ABORTION\u003c/p>\u003cp>Even inside Nevada, where the just to an abortion within 24 weeks has been codified inside condition rules and regulations by voters since 1990, Sisolak has made the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade a centre talking point, while have other Democratic candidates nationwide. Sisolak is a staunch supporter of abortion rights with every one other accompanied by has worked to build Nevada a protected from danger haven for abortion patients while neighboring Utah, Arizona with every one other accompanied by Idaho have restricted access to abortions.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Sisolak has attempted to colouring Lombardo while an anti-abortion extremist, who has waffled on his stance on other abortion measures all over the campaign. 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In a letter posted on his website last week, he said that he would uphold the order.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Earlier this month, he said he would \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-voting-rights-abortion-nevada-legislature-8116e7ccde2168ffdd8ed9fde48bb90d\">oppose a national abortion ban\u003c/a> proposed by South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham. \u003c/p>\u003cp>At a GOP main debate inside May, Lombardo said he would "absolutely lay clasp of it under consideration" when asked if he'd believe concerning measures maybe including parental notification laws, abortion waiting periods or restricting contraceptives, down accompanied by "anything associated accompanied by the pro-life view" nevertheless declined to cite specific measures. More recently, he has emphasized on his website that he will "ensure that contraceptives remain accessible for Nevadans,\" small portion of a 106-word clarification for his abortion stance that throughout the main contest had trio words: "Joe is pro-life."\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>EDUCATION\u003c/p>\u003cp>Lombardo with every one other accompanied by Sisolak have both said they want to exist known while the "education governor,\" though their eyesight for schools is radically different. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The sheriff has criticized Nevada's low trial scores with every one other accompanied by faraway learning throughout the pandemic. He said he would reinstate parts of Nevada's "Read by Grade 3" program, potentially including a supplying that holds spine third graders who don't read at category level, with every one other accompanied by supports an expansion of charter schools, which teachers' unions oppose. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Sisolak has allocated $200 million to address learning mislaying caused by the pandemic, with every one other accompanied by while trial scores have improved, they have not been restored to pre-pandemic levels. He has taken praise for signing the largest education budget inside condition history with every one other accompanied by providing teachers accompanied by their earliest raises inside a decade. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>CRIME\u003c/p>\u003cp>Crime is playing not here while a top matter inside Nevada while somewhere else inside the country. For months, the set of two have pointed fingers at every one other over crime rates inside Clark County, place of residence to Las Vegas, where Lombardo claims Sisolak's policies have hindered his ability to fight crime with every one other accompanied by Sisolak saying Lombardo has neglected his position of employment while he focuses on higher office. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Lombardo wants to toughen penalties for criminal offenses. He said he would repeal a rules and regulations that raised the trigger for a felony theft ask in remittance from $650 to $1,200 with every one other accompanied by increased the amount of drugs a have a suspicion needs to convey to exist eligible for felony trafficking charges. \u003c/p>\u003cp>During his earliest term, Sisolak banned bump stocks that authorize semiautomatic weapons to blaze faster with every one other accompanied by advocated for "common-sense background checks." \u003c/p>\u003cp>Both concur that the condition should hire additional police officers. \u003c/p>\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\u003cp>Stern is a corps subscriber for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. 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At these events, celebrities are spotted with every one other accompanied by liquor is consumed, while Biden gets the one-on-one interactions he had missed for a a large amount of of his military operation with every one other accompanied by presidency due to COVID-19. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>The fundraisers — held inside lavish Manhattan apartments, drab conference centers with every one other accompanied by backyard tents glammed up accompanied by chandeliers — have been one of the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-congress-c2c16dc44b0a8e8fe9e7889d417fcf25\">most perceptible ways Biden has been deployed\u003c/a> this election year at a hour dated when his \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-approval-rating-poll-bf41fe8b0016bf8aaf144e7310c6539f\">approval ratings carry on accompanied by to exist underwater\u003c/a> with every one other accompanied by numerous \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-inflation-biden-prices-congress-72efa8ec253bc9c34b95b133520976e5\">Democrats aren't eager to stand by him\u003c/a> on the military operation trail. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='afs:Card:107424538531' class='hub-peek-embed' content-id='780f92ff12dfa7533e268f467027f730'>Hub peek embed (2022Midtermelections) - Compressed layout (automatic embed) \u003c/div>\u003cp>"Joe Biden is Joe Biden. He's real, he's down to earth, if he knows the people inside the space … he's flat additional relaxed," said Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., a near ally. "He gets all kinds of questions, he answers them honestly, he inside all likelihood gives his staff heart attacks." \u003c/p>\u003cp>So a lengthy way this year, Biden has headlined 11 receptions to lift money straight for the Democratic National Committee, with every one other accompanied by they have brought inside additional than $19.6 million, according to the committee. The events have ranged from a $300,000 haul at a yacht club inside Portland, Oregon, to a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-covid-health-c9df7e2c91f12c98a0801991b057dc95\">cozy, 18-person affair\u003c/a> (with quartet others on video screens) at Hotel Washington near the White House that took inside additional than $3 million. A set of two of fundraisers \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-congress-joe-manchin-kyrsten-sinema-los-angeles-23996d96d891503e0b868396b0ff3792\">at mansions inside Southern California\u003c/a> throughout the Summit of the Americas inside June raked inside $5 million inside a matter of hours. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Separate from the DNC events, Biden spoke at a fundraiser inside September benefiting Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer that brought inside additional than $450,000 for the condition Democratic Party. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>The governors association event raised $1 million, with every one other accompanied by Biden was to have appeared on Tuesday at a fundraiser on behalf of Charlie Crist, the nominee for manager inside Florida who has not been bashful concerning wanting the president to military operation accompanied by him. That political trip was postponed due to Hurricane Ian.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The DNC too enlists Biden for solicitations sent to its grassroots donor list, accompanied by emails signed by the president consistently raising the most money for the committee, communal gathering officials say. As of this past week, the DNC has raised additional than $107 million, the most at this point inside some year with every one other accompanied by an amount that Democratic officials credited inside large small portion to Biden's straight involvement.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Biden seems to mainly relish the in-person interactions that a private fundraiser offers.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>A famously chummy politician, Biden makes sure at some big-dollar event that his hosts are made to be in touch exceptional with every one other accompanied by recognized. For instance, at a late August fundraiser inside the Washington suburbs, Biden earliest spent some hour dated giving a child near the front of the gathering a small portion of observation with every one other accompanied by at that hour dated the president gave his remarks for some dozen big-dollar DNC supporters.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"Honey, what's your name?" Biden asked a little girl, sitting into and not here of what he joked had to exist the most "boring" event. "Well, permit me tell you something. Is that your daddy? He owes you large for having to sit here."\u003c/p>\u003cp>At a June fundraiser inside Beverly Hills, California, at the place of residence of billionaire media mogul Haim Saban, the president mused to Saban's wife, Cheryl, that both men had "married way above our station." And standing inside the 65th-floor apartment of Henry with every one other accompanied by Marsha Laufer overlooking New York's Central Park, Biden gushed over the "magnificent" view, noting: "I don't know if there's a better view inside New York than here." \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Indeed, the residence is a "piece of heaven" for the Laufers, who appeared fastidious concerning keeping their place spotless. Attendees checked their shoes – costly Jimmy Choo mules with every one other accompanied by Saint Laurent pumps among them — at the door with every one other accompanied by listened to Biden while inside socks or slippers provided by the couple. A small category of reporters inside attendance were asked to place "booties" over their shoes to retain protected from danger their hardwood floors with every one other accompanied by light-colored carpets. (None of the shoe rules applied to Biden, who kept his on with every one other accompanied by did not exist dressed inside the disposable coverings.)\u003c/p>\u003cp>At Biden fundraisers, celebrities such while the performer Robert De Niro (in New York) or filmmaker Ken Burns (in Boston) build the occasional cameo, although neither stayed lengthy sufficient to hear the president speak.\u003c/p>\u003cp>To donors, Biden's comments, which tin sprint from a few minutes to a half-hour, are a a a large amount of additional casual, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-donald-trump-presidential-pennsylvania-edd46881a1c0c71df97663ac37236f26\">off-the-cuff report of the military operation speech\u003c/a> that he delivers inside front of the cameras. Journalists have access to Biden fundraisers, although fair accompanied by a notepad with every one other accompanied by pen, meaning cameras are barred.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Especially while of late, Biden takes protected from danger keeping to underline his administration's accomplishments — a $1.9 trillion pandemic reassurance package, a bipartisan infrastructure law, a climate with every one other accompanied by health protected from danger keeping invoice that came following months of inner Democratic wrangling. He at that hour dated stresses to donors how the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-congress-government-and-politics-ef7c2cd3af2cbcf71c2fee1c68da2270\">upcoming November midterms are a choice\u003c/a>, not fair in the centre of keeping his achievements with every one other accompanied by Republicans unraveling them, nevertheless on other issues such while abortion with every one other accompanied by guns.\u003c/p>\u003cp>While aides debate that his message varies inside additional private settings, Biden regularly speaks extemporaneously with every one other accompanied by tin exist a lengthy way less guarded than at his ceremonial remarks at a lectern or on a stage.\u003c/p>\u003cp>It's been at fundraisers where Biden has invoked variations of fascism – \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-inflation-maryland-congress-f72f8363b9344a7cb2dd871409d77dba\">be it "semi-fascism" or "tint of fascism"\u003c/a> -- to allude to to Trump-fueled forces within the Republican Party that Biden has said are a threat to the nation's democratic foundations. While his spokeswoman declined to assess the implications of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/elections-voting-italy-matteo-salvini-c251832f5b73063b2e20869a21f92efe\">the recent election inside Italy\u003c/a>, where a political communal gathering accompanied by neo-fascist roots won the most votes, Biden at the DGA fundraiser pointed to the results while he warned concerning the fate of democracy both inside the United States with every one other accompanied by abroad.\u003c/p>\u003cp>At the Laufers' home, Biden – who tends to retain away from talking concerning his trust when discussing policy — notably referenced the Catholic Church's position while castigating Republicans who had pushed for broad bans on abortion.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"I occur to exist a practicing Roman Catholic. My house of God doesn't flat build that argument," he said, referring to abortion bans that depart from "no exceptions."\u003c/p>\u003cp>The quintessential Biden qualities — his candor with every one other accompanied by his warmth accompanied by the crowd — become additional pronounced on one occasion the press is kicked not here with every one other accompanied by audience members have a chance to inquire Biden questions, speak people who have attended such gatherings.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The questions Biden gets differ from event to event with every one other accompanied by they veer from political master scheme to the report of the day. During a Manhattan fundraiser at the place of residence of businessman with every one other accompanied by communal justice activist Henry Munoz, Biden was pressed on his plans on immigration with every one other accompanied by how he would report his closing message to voters, while well while the impact of the overturning of Roe v. 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(AP) — A Riverside city council subscriber said inside a legal action that the county sheriff defamed her when he said on communal media that she had supported defacing the famous courthouse throughout a July abortion rights protest. \u003c/p>\u003cp>City Council Member Clarissa Cervantes said Sheriff Chad Bianco caused "immense harm" to her reputation by posting incorrect comments connecting her to a objection that she did not take part in, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pe.com/2022/09/30/sheriff-chad-bianco-sued-accused-of-libel-by-riverside-council-member/\">The Press-Enterprise reported\u003c/a> Friday. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The legal action filed Tuesday inside Riverside County Superior Court said Bianco's statements, accompanied by "utter lack of supporting evidence," implied she committed a crime. The remarks led to censure with every one other accompanied by threats opposed to her with every one other accompanied by exposed her to "hatred, contempt, ridicule with every one other accompanied by shame."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Bianco had named Cervantes inside a Facebook pole while the council subscriber that "a lot" of people said was inside attendance inside support of an abortion rights demonstration, where eight protesters were arrested for vandalism for painting greenish handprints on the walls with every one other accompanied by pillars of the almost 120-year-old courthouse. Damage was estimated at $10,000.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>"Our downtown courthouse is a beautiful small portion of history with every one other accompanied by art,\" Bianco wrote. \"When you damage, deface, or demolish possessions you are no indeed longer a protester, you are nothing additional than a ordinary criminal. 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It laid not here the findings of an self-governing probe detailing how Southern Baptist leaders stonewalled with every one other accompanied by denigrated survivors of clergy sexual intercourse abuse over set of two decades while seeking to retain protected from danger their own reputations.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='afs:Card:575522641639' class='hub-peek-embed' content-id='861c6ee91ee7dd033cfe1b85b6fdbfa3'>Hub peek embed (Abortion) - Compressed layout (automatic embed) \u003c/div>\u003cp>In August, SBC leaders revealed that the Department of Justice was investigating some of its greatest entities, giving few details nevertheless indicating that the question worried the sexual intercourse abuse allegations. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Barber's background while a trusted, small-town preacher — not to allude to his folksy sensory power of humor with every one other accompanied by self-deprecating way — helps describe why fellow Baptists picked him.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"In this little while where I believe there's a a large amount of widespread distrust of these large institutions, I believe a a large amount of people find it refreshing that the one leading us is an daily pastor," said Daniel Darling, director of the Land Center for Cultural Engagement at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary inside Fort Worth, Texas.\u003c/p>\u003cp>A staunch theological conservative, Barber touts biblical inerrancy, opposes women serving while pastors with every one other accompanied by supports abortion bans. In running for SBC president, he expressed a wish to exist a peacemaker with every one other accompanied by a unifier. Emerging from a meadow of quartet candidates, he received 61% of votes inside a run-off opposed to Tom Ascol, a Florida pastor who vowed to lay clasp of the denomination further right.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>The SBC faces multiple challenges. Rank-and-file Baptists have demonstrated a strong commitment to implementing sexual intercourse abuse reforms, nevertheless the final consequence remains unclear. The denomination too has a difficulty accompanied by falling membership, which has slid 16% from its 2006 peak. Annual baptisms last year were 154,701, down 63% from their 1999 high, according to SBC affiliate Lifeway Christian Resources.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Nathan Finn, a house of God historian with every one other accompanied by provost of North Greenville University inside South Carolina, agreed that Barber's small-town appeal is a large small portion of why Baptists turned to him to lead the SBC into and not here of such troubled times. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"To numerous Southern Baptists, Bart is an appealing president precisely since he does not pastor a suburban megachurch or lead a seminary," Finn said via email. "He pastors a 'normal' Southern Baptist house of God with every one other accompanied by sounds exist fond of the pastor down the road. I believe numerous find him to exist a gulp of air of fresh air while well while a thoughtful power of speech to symbolize Southern Baptists to the external outside world.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>"Though he is a well-educated house of God historian with every one other accompanied by an expert on SBC history with every one other accompanied by polity, Bart is not an elitist," Finn added. "He gives the feeling that he would by preference exist employed on his farm than hobnobbing accompanied by denominational leaders."\u003c/p>\u003cp>For his part, Barber said he ran for president since he prayed with every one other accompanied by concluded God was calling him to do it, not since of the sexual intercourse abuse crisis.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Still, following not long ago appointing an abuse position of employment strength that will build recommendations at following year's yearly gathering inside New Orleans, he said Southern Baptists are determined that there must exist reforms with every one other accompanied by identifying solutions to the difficulty is his top priority.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"Look who all has been touched by this," Barber said of sexual intercourse abuse. "It's inside condition schools. It's inside Scouting. It's inside the military. It's inside Hollywood. It's inside sports. It's inside USA Gymnastics.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>"And so if Southern Baptists, who too have problems inside this area, tin lead the way to real solutions … that would exist a great shining victory for the SBC," he added. "And what Hollywood with every one other accompanied by USA Gymnastics with every one other accompanied by the management with every one other accompanied by the military … don't have is the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit with every one other accompanied by the word of honour of God himself that he has built his house of God with every one other accompanied by the gates of hell will not prevail opposed to it."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Barber grew up inside a Southern Baptist family inside Lake City, Arkansas. Baptized fair earlier to his sixth birthday, he felt God calling him to management dividing at number of years 11 with every one other accompanied by preached his earliest sermon at 15.\u003c/p>\u003cp>His late father, Jim, ran the place of residence office for an Arkansas congressman, a Democrat named Bill Alexander. His stay-at-home mother, Carolyn, now 77, taught him to read by the hour dated he entered kindergarten with every one other accompanied by made sure he paid observation inside church.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Often his dad would convey politicians by the house, he recalled, with every one other accompanied by his mom would build chicken cuisine utensil pie or smothered steak accompanied by mashed potatoes with every one other accompanied by gravy.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"It's sort of weird," Barber said. "Here we were inside extremely small-town Arkansas — not a a large amount of money, not a a large amount of fame or anything exist fond of that — with every one other accompanied by a gubernatorial candidate would place an extremity to by the house.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"Dad always had an attentiveness inside government with every one other accompanied by contemporaneous events," he continued. "And from when I was young, I enjoyed sitting there listening to the adults talking concerning all this stuff."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Barber attended Baptist-affiliated Baylor University inside Waco, Texas, where he met his future wife, Tracy, inside a campus ministry. They have set of two children: Jim, 19, with every one other accompanied by Sarah, 16.\u003c/p>\u003cp>He too earned a master's inside divinity with every one other accompanied by a doctorate inside house of God history from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He pastored inside Mill Creek, Oklahoma, with every one other accompanied by Royse City, Texas, earlier to moving to Farmersville inside 1999.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"He has the heart of a pastor. He is someone who really cares concerning folks," Tracy Barber said of her husband of 30 years. "The people inside our house of God are our family, with every one other accompanied by Farmersville is a small town, so it lends itself to that." \u003c/p>\u003cp>Steve Speir, 74, is a 42-year subscriber of First Baptist Church of Farmersville, which averages Sunday attendance of concerning 320. His wife, Linda, plays the house of God organ.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Barber is "very organized," Speir said. "He won't retain anything hidden. Our entire house of God has filled disclosure on all monetary matters. They present with an accounting for every one inspect that gets written."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Another longtime member, Donna Armstrong, 75, voiced similar trust inside Barber: "We never uncertainty whether he's biblically based or loves the Lord. He too fair knows how to exist anthropoid with every one other accompanied by tell accompanied by people."\u003c/p>\u003cp>On a recent Sunday, Barber got up at 4:30 a.m., attended a deacons gathering at 7 with every one other accompanied by preached at his congregation's 8:30 with every one other accompanied by 11 worship assemblies. After a two-hour afternoon nap, he drove to Dallas with every one other accompanied by flew to Nashville, Tennessee, for meetings at the Southern Baptist Convention headquarters.\u003c/p>\u003cp>After trio nights there, he caught a ride to Louisville, Kentucky, where he stayed overnight Wednesday with every one other accompanied by spoke Thursday at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, the oldest of the SBC's sextet seminaries. A canceled flying kept him inside Louisville an additional darkness earlier to he returned place of residence Friday. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"It is stressful. It is time-consuming. I do like it," Barber said of his new job. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Back home, he rose earlier to the sol that Saturday to assist his feminine child cargo a 1,000-pound heifer named Iris into a cattle trailer. They drove a half-hour to a dirt-floor events center inside McKinney, a Dallas suburb, for a livestock show organized by local chapters of the 4-H Club with every one other accompanied by the National FFA Organization.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Barber greeted special-needs children who came to see the animals, used clippers to assist Sarah shave Iris with every one other accompanied by periodically shoveled manure into a garbage can.\u003c/p>\u003cp>He too enjoyed a affectionate talk accompanied by rancher Joni Brewer concerning the miniature Hereford cows her family brought to the show. Brewer attends First Baptist Church of Trenton, concerning 20 miles northern of Farmersville, nevertheless she had no indeed clue that the male she was talking to was the new leader of the SBC.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"I exist not here inside the country," she said, "so you don't always see all of those things." \u003c/p>\u003cp>But James Callagher, who knows Barber into and not here of 4-H Club activities, described his friend while perfect for the job. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"The thing that sticks not here to me is fair authenticity," said Callagher, who is Catholic. "He lives his faith, with every one other accompanied by while Christians we have a a large amount of ordinary ground."\u003c/p>\u003cp>In addition to such in-person contacts, Barber maintains an operative presence on Twitter, where he has 20,000 followers with every one other accompanied by interacts accompanied by supporters with every one other accompanied by critics alike. Just inside the last week, he posted pictures with every one other accompanied by videos of his cows, debated biblical qualifications for house of God leaders with every one other accompanied by shared SBC plans for Hurricane Ian relief. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Barber with every one other accompanied by his family exist inside a church-owned parsonage, nevertheless last year they bought 107 acres of land where they're raising their Santa Gertrudis thew cattle with every one other accompanied by where they intend to build a place of residence when it becomes additional affordable. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"If something happened to me, my spouse would not only mislay her husband nevertheless she'd mislay her house, since that house goes accompanied by my job," he said of the parsonage. "So we started making a additional permanent scheme at this phase of our lives."\u003c/p>\u003cp>For now, they retain a recreational automobile accompanied by a generator on the property, providing a convenient place for a chilly swallow or a heated shower.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In a recent sermon, Barber joked that a boyhood position of employment chopping cotton with every one other accompanied by hoeing soybeans was what inspired him to go into ministry. Asked on the operate spine from the livestock show if he's now enjoying existence while a farm owner, Barber smiled with every one other accompanied by nodded.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"Not only that, nevertheless I'm surviving each item else since of how I'm enjoying it," he said. "It's a great spring of tranquility for me.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"To watch a herd of cattle around sunset slowly graze their way across the pasture, it's extremely difficult to exist stressed watching that," Barber continued. 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Amid crises, rural roots anchor Southern Baptists' president