Scenes from the SBC Annual Meeting
A photo essay by Editor-in-Chief Brian Kaylor about what happened during the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting this week in Nashville, Tennessee, both inside and outside the convention hall.
The Revolution at the SBC Annual Meeting
After Ed Litton emerged victorious in the Southern Baptist Convention’s presidential election on Tuesday, reports and analysis quickly portrayed the news as a defeat for the denomination’s fundamentalist wing. But rather than fundamentalism being dismissed, anti-elitism was embraced.
Southern Baptist Convention: 4 Things to Watch at the Annual Meeting
Thousands of Southern Baptists will gather next week in Nashville for their big annual meeting. Read full piece
Why Grievance Studies Hoaxer & Atheist James Lindsay Wants to Save Southern Baptists
Over the past two years, James Lindsay has been on a crusade against what he sees as a ‘woke’ invasion of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. And some Southern Baptist leaders are embracing the work of the atheist hoaxer and former massage therapist,
Supreme Court Throws Abortion Fight into Center of Midterms
In agreeing to hear a potentially groundbreaking abortion case, the Supreme Court has energized activists on both sides of the long-running debate who are now girding to make abortion access a major issue in next year’s midterm elections.
You’re Right, Al Mohler, a Downpour is Coming
Beth Allison Barr, author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood, responds to a metaphor by Al Mohler of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary that compared the ordination of women to a growing rainstorm.
Should Women be Pastors? It’s a test Southern Baptists face, and Al Mohler is failing
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Al Mohler recently panned the ordination of three women at Saddleback Church in California, the second largest church in the Southern Baptist Convention. To Mohler, the Southern Baptist Convention is approaching a test. Should women be ordained and hired as
The Blowback to Saddleback
Criticism of Saddleback Church for ordaining women shows that there are competing visions for what the future of evangelicalism in America looks like. More interestingly, we believe this debate reveals how the Bible (and its interpretation) is often used as a tool for preserving power.
Largest Church in SBC Ordains Three Women as Pastors
The largest church affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention ordained three women as ministers May 6, sending shock waves through the male-centric leadership of the nation’s largest non-Catholic denomination. Read full piece
Al Mohler’s Curious Defense of Conversion Therapy
“For people like Ozanne and Hyndman, conversion therapy is painfully personal. For Mohler, it’s an abstraction.” Read full piece