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Mar 4, 2022: The Roys Report: ​SBC President Ed Litton Won’t Run Again — To Focus on Racial Reconciliation Instead
​Saying he wants to spend his time focusing on racial reconciliation, Southern Baptist Convention President Ed Litton announced via video Tuesday that he would not seek a second term in office.
Litton will become the first SBC president in four decades to not seek reelection after his first one-year term. The last SBC president to do so was famed Memphis, Tennessee, megachurch pastor and radio preacher Adrian Rogers.

Mar 1, 2022: The Tennessean: ​Southern Baptist Convention President Ed Litton will not seek reelection
​Southern Baptist Convention President Ed Litton will not seek reelection at the convention's annual meeting this June, Litton announced Tuesday afternoon. 
The Alabama pastor's decision is uncommon in the history of the nation's largest Protestant denomination. It also adds another high priority item to the list of decisions Southern Baptists will make at its two-day meeting in Anaheim.

June 28, 2021: Newsweek: ​Pastor Ed Litton Removes Over 140 Video Sermons After Being Accused of Plagiarism
​Pastor Ed Litton has removed dozens of videos from his church's YouTube channel after he was accused of plagiarizing sermons.
Newsweek found more than 140 videos were either unavailable or hidden across several playlists on the Redemption Church YouTube page as of Monday morning.
It comes after Alabama pastor Litton, who was recently elected as president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), came under fire for using segments in 2020 from sermons delivered by Summit Church Pastor J.D. Greear in 2019.

June 16, 2021: Intelligencer: ​How Critical Race Theory Overran the Southern Baptist Convention
This year’s convention — the first of the post-Trump era and one of the most highly attended in decades — would be an opportunity to stake their claim, insert leaders in positions of power, and make a public statement to the world that any hint of “liberalism” among this group of the faithful would not be tolerated. And though they ultimately fell short of their goals — with a more moderate pastor, Reverend Ed Litton, winning the election as the denomination’s president — their boisterous presence signaled that even rigidly conservative leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention will never be considered pure enough for some.

Jan 22, 2021: Ministry Watch: ​Alabama Pastor Ed Litton, Known for Racial Reconciliation Work, Joins SBC Presidential Race
​The Rev. Ed Litton, an Alabama pastor known for his work on racial reconciliation, will be nominated for president of the Southern Baptist Convention this summer.
Litton enters an increasingly crowded field for SBC president, joining Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert Mohler, Georgia pastor Mike Stone and Randy Adams, executive director of the Northwest Baptist Convention.

​Litton has served as pastor of Redemption Church since July 1994. Before coming to Redemption Church (which changed its name from North Mobile Baptist Church in 2014), Litton planted Mountain View Baptist Church in Tucson, Arizona, and served at First Baptist of Euless, Texas, in the college and career ministry and in the Arizona Southern Baptist Convention Evangelism Department. In 1987 he planted Mountain View Baptist Church in Tucson, Arizona. He is a graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, according to Baptist Press.
Litton’s wife, Kathy, is director of planter spouse development for the North American Mission Board. She was elected registration secretary at the 2019 SBC Annual Meeting, but resigned from the position Jan. 19.

March 1, 2022: Litton announces he will not seek reelection as Southern Baptist President Convention. Litton explained in a video Tuesday he wants to give more time to an initiative in Mobile — the location of Litton's church — focused on racial reconciliation: "I believe this work is something that God is calling me to do and devote myself to for the next five to 10 years of my life," Litton said. "But I also believe that at this important moment at the life of our convention, it is best for me to to do so as a pastor and not from the office of president of the Southern Baptist Convention."

January 6, 2023

Jan 26, 2021: ​Baptist Messenger: Alabama Pastor Ed Litton to be nominated for SBC president
​Ed Litton, pastor of Redemption Church in Saraland, Alabama, will be nominated for president of the Southern Baptist Convention, according to a report published in Baptist Press.
Fred Luter, pastor of Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in New Orleans, announced to Baptist Press on Jan. 19 that he would nominate Litton.