We’re now 25 years out from the Conservative Resurgence movement of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Hardliners’ ultraconservative, extremely political hijacking of the denomination has had lasting effects on not only the SBC’s members themselves, but also on evangelicalism as a whole. Those effects are not positive, however. And I Read more…
During the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), a group called 9Marks held a “State of the SBC” panel presentation. During this presentation, their five speakers aired a number of concerns about their denomination. As the SBC lurches ever-closer to schism, it was a banger of a Read more…
If you were holding your breath waiting for pastors’ wives to finally get the compassion and care they need to stave off exhaustion and burnout, you’ll have to keep doing that. They most definitely didn’t get it from the recently-ended Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Annual Meeting. Instead, they got the Read more…
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) just wrapped up its big 2025 Annual Meeting in Dallas. Its theme, “Hold Fast,” doubles a hilarious descriptor of the event—because you could all but hear the denomination’s leaders whispering nonstop: Oh god oh god just let us get through this defunding vote in one Read more…
Over the past five years or so, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has been fighting more and more over their Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC). This relatively-new subgroup of the SBC has become a proxy for the fight between the denomination’s two factions. One of those factions, the hardliner Read more…
Recently, Calvinist pastor and G3 Conference founder Josh Buice got caught operating eight sockpuppet accounts over at least a couple of years. He used them to anonymously criticize and attack other evangelicals. So far, he’s lost his G3 leadership position at least. But he’s not the first Calvinist leader caught Read more…
Evangelicals love to claim having a superior morality to heathens. They insist that their faith produces real changes in believers that lead them to greater moral heights than we poor heathens could ever manage. But their own behavior betrays those claims. Today, we’ll see how one evangelical denomination, the Southern Read more…
Authenticity, as a concept, isn’t part of the vocabulary of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). With their latest metrics revealing yet more declines in membership, affiliated churches, and donations, this denomination is bleeding relevance. Today, we’ll cover one big reason why: Zero authenticity within evangelicalism in general. And it’s about Read more…
For years now, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has been desperately spin-doctoring and obfuscating their terrible metrics to look better to their flocks. But this year might represent a whole new low for them. Despite a few gains in some metrics, the overall picture couldn’t look more bleak. Today, we’ll Read more…
The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) looms close, but we haven’t heard much out of the denomination’s leaders about it. We’ve heard nothing about last year’s metrics, for instance, nor much about this year’s SBC President nominees. But we have heard about one thing: The big Read more…