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Southern Baptists

National Review writer Kevin Williamson blasts the Southern Baptist Convention

John Fea   |  June 29, 2021

Here is Williamson on Albert Mohler’s failed campaign for president of the Southern Baptist Convention: Ed Litton, a moderate reformer, has been elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention — and the Reverend R. Albert Mohler has been served his […]

SBC messenger and Biden voter begs the president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary to unblock him on Twitter

John Fea   |  June 16, 2021

My favorite moment from the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting so far:

How Southern Baptists and others are responding to the election of Ed Litton as president of the convention

John Fea   |  June 16, 2021

We also included some initial reaction to Litton’s election in this post. Litton is, relatively speaking, a “moderate.” That means he wants to work for racial reconciliation, does not want to condemn critical race theory, and embraces the Baptist Faith […]

Late afternoon Tuesday at the SBC Annual Meeting: elections, abortion, CRT, sexual abuse, leadership, and no air conditioning

John Fea   |  June 15, 2021

The Southern Baptists voted for their next president earlier today. Kate Shellnut has the first ballot results: As we reported in our last post, Ed Litton, senior pastor of Redemption Church in Saraland, Alabama, is the new president. It was […]

Ed Litton is the new president of the Southern Baptist Convention

John Fea   |  June 15, 2021

Litton is the senior pastor of Redemption Church in Saraland, Alabama

Tuesday early afternoon at the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting

John Fea   |  June 15, 2021

I am trying to follow things in Nashville. Here are some tweets from Tuesday (June 15, 2021) early afternoon. The presidential election will take place later this afternoon. The messengers seem to be consistently rebuking the Executive Committee’s resolutions. Read Dominic […]

Tuesday morning at the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting

John Fea   |  June 15, 2021

I am trying to follow things in Nashville. Here are some tweets from Tuesday (June 15, 2021) morning: Yesterday (June 14, 2021): Today (June 15): Will it be a stolen election? 🙂

Evangelical roundup for June 14, 2021 (Southern Baptist Convention edition)

John Fea   |  June 14, 2021

What is going on in Evangelicalland? The Southern Baptists are converging on Nashville this week. Here are some links to help you put the annual meeting in context: Sarah Pulliam Bailey has a helpful piece on what is at stake. […]

Will the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention be Mike Stone or the left-leaning compromiser Albert Mohler?

John Fea   |  June 12, 2021

The guy in the video below wants Mike Stone to be the next president: Yes, THIS Mike Stone. Meanwhile, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler seems to be running as the leftist candidate. 🙂 Stay tuned.

What does Russell Moore’s departure from the Southern Baptist Convention tells us about the state of American Christianity?

John Fea   |  June 8, 2021

The Southern Baptists are meeting in Nashville later this month and it is going to be a doozy! Stone vs. Mohler Critical race theory. Women in the church. Sexual-abuse cover-ups. Russell Moore. This sounds more like a soap opera than […]

Paige Patterson and the “black girl”

John Fea   |  June 3, 2021

In a recently leaked letter to the leadership of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Russell Moore letter he wrote: Another SBC leader used constant pressure against me in protest of our hiring of Dan Darling and Trillia […]

Early responses to the leaked Russell Moore letter

John Fea   |  June 2, 2021

What letter? Get up to speed here. An array of responses: Thread and the backstory: Here’s more: Meanwhile, Albert Mohler is running for office:

We now have a better understanding of why Russell Moore left his post with the Southern Baptist Convention

John Fea   |  June 2, 2021

And it has little to do directly with Trump. Here is Paul O’Donnell and Bob Smietana at Religion News Service: For years before his resignation last month as president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the […]

What is going on at Southwest Baptist University?

John Fea   |  May 28, 2021

From Inside Higher Ed: When Dwayne Walker went up for tenure this past academic year at Southwest Baptist University in Missouri, he was invited to a luncheon with members of the Board of Trustees. There, he says, trustees questioned him […]

Southern Baptists in the wake of Russell Moore’s departure

John Fea   |  May 22, 2021

The most sane voice in the Southern Baptist Church has finally had enough. Russell Moore just left for Christianity Today. Meanwhile, the country’s largest Protestant denomination approaches its annual meeting in Nashville as a deeply divided body. Can the members […]

Some early reaction to Russell Moore’s move to Christianity Today

John Fea   |  May 19, 2021

Get up to speed here. Brian Zahnd being Brian Zahnd: Radical subjectivist Ed Stetzer? Not sure what this means. Sounds like some pretty intense SBC inside baseball: I will try to add some more throughout the day. Check back. UPDATE: […]

Let it rain: Beth Allison Barr on Al Mohler, women’s ordination, and the Southern Baptist Convention

John Fea   |  May 14, 2021

Beth Allison Barr, the author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth, has a message for Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler and the rest of the Southern Baptist leadership going crazy […]

Rick Warren’s church ordains three women. Albert Mohler and the rest of the Southern Baptists are not happy.

John Fea   |  May 11, 2021

Southern Baptist’s do not ordain women. Rick Warren‘s Saddleback Church is one of the largest Southern Baptist Church’s in the country. Last weekend Saddleback ordained three women pastors. Here is Bob Smietana at Religion News Service: Saddleback Church, one of […]

Beth Moore apologizes for her past views on complementarianism

John Fea   |  April 8, 2021

Here is Yonat Shimron and Bob Smietana at Religion News Service: In a Twitter thread Wednesday (April 7), Moore took aim at complementarianism, the 20th century theological framework that argues men and women were created for different roles and that […]

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