June 8, 2021. America’s largest protestant denomination, Southern Baptist Convention, will meet in Dallas, TX, June 8-11, this month. They may be gaveled into session by the Adoniram Judson gavel, a tradition begun in 2021 by J. D. Greear. As convention president, Greear broke with previous patterns and did not use the Broadus gavel which was given to the assembly by John A. Broadus, a founding faculty member of Southern Seminary who was also an enslaver and a believer in white superiority. Greear wanted to refocus the convention’s energy toward missions and even began using the moniker Great Commission Baptists rather than Southern Baptists. The Adoniram Judson gavel was made from the bed frame of Judson’s deathbed in Moulmein, Burma. (See: 2021 to Present, Adoniram Judson Gavel, Southern Baptist Convention, Nashville, TN.}