Convicted felon loses bid to regain top Baptist post: National Baptist Convention chooses Julius Scruggs instead
Despite a highly publicized effort to regain the presidency of the nation’s largest African-American Baptist denomination, disgraced pastor Henry Lyons overwhelmingly lost his election bid last month.
Henry Lyons, a former president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, lost 4,108 to 924 to Alabama pastor Julius Scruggs when delegates cast their ballots September 10 at the denomination’s annual meeting in Memphis.