The Danbury Institute is a conservative Baptist advocacy group. It has released its list of legislative priorities. Check them out. Organizations such as this have become necessary because the Southern Baptist Convention no longer can be relied upon for this type of activity.
Tag: Southern Baptist Convention
Southern Baptist Convention “Striver Class”
This gentleman is referring to the leaders within the Convention that have tilted liberal/ progressive over the last decade. This includes folks like Russell Moore, J.D. Greear and those who are within their orbit or who otherwise support the stances they have taken: One of the big differences between me […]
Learning More About J.D. Greear And Summit Church
There was an interesting news item this week. J.D. Greear’s Summit Church was seeking to expand into Chatham County. It bought some land and sought a rezoning so that it could build a large church complex. But the county commissioners turned the project down. The response from Summit Church? It […]
PCA Backtracks on Woke Immigration Advice To Illegals
The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) is a historically conservative denomination– indeed, probably the largest conservative Presbyterian denomination. However, portions of the denomination have “gone woke” during recent years, not unlike the Southern Baptist Convention. One of its entities recently gave very questionable advice to illegal aliens. It got called […]
The #MeToo Clincher
When the socialists and radical feminists (and also past and current leaders within the Southern Baptist Convention) make big noises over sexual abuse allegations to create the appearance of protecting women, lots of people get hurt. But this lady points out that their demonstrative concern for protecting women does not […]
Death of A Denomination, Death of A Christian Institution…
This is a fairly remarkable speech by Dr. W.A. Criswell, who was the pastor of First Baptist in Dallas, Texas over a period of more than four decades. He was speaking at the Pastor’s Conference of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1985 shortly after biblical conservatives had attained control of […]
The Week Southern Baptists Felt The Weight Of Bad Decisions on “Sexual Abuse”
The manner in which the Southern Baptist Convention’s leadership chose to handle the “sexual abuse” crisis was controversial from the outset. Their solution took away the autonomy of local churches, and presumed certain of the men accused to be guilty. Megan Basham devoted over forty pages of her book to […]
Using Joe Rigney’s Book to Add Context To Megan Basham’s Book
I just returned from vacation during which I had the opportunity to finish reading two books that are interrelated. Readers will recall that we had posted here several interviews featuring journalist Megan Basham during which she discussed her new book, “Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for […]
Another Southern Seminary Story
This is the institution led by Albert Mohler. HT: Dissenter In this audio, Rosaria Butterfield rebukes Southern Baptist Theological Seminary for approving the dissertation of Nate Collins, who would later found @revoiceorg. In answering the question how Criticial Theory ended up in the church, Butterfield astutuely observes, "Bad ideas… pic.twitter.com/FGWdR9rxL6 […]
SBC Resolution on In Vitro Fertilization
One of the relatively few positive changes that arose from last week’s annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention was a resolution against In Vitro Fertilization. While the resolution was perhaps not as strong as it could have been, it nevertheless spoke from a pro-life standpoint on a topic that […]