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Ronnie Floyd is Still Pushing ‘Vision 2025’ For Some Reason
Today, let’s check out Vision 2025 — and see why Ronnie Floyd just can’t let go of what he really hopes will prove to be his legacy to the entire SBC denomination.
Analyzing Christianity
The Southern Baptist Convention Faced Serious Declines Everywhere in 2020
Today, let’s go over the declines that the SBC faced all over in 2020, and talk about why those declines likely happened.
From Patreon
The SBC’s 2021 Book of Reports Is Out!
As is our wont each year, we now turn our gaze to the 2021 Annual Report of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). These reports — as biased, uneven, and spin-doctored as they always are — are of great importance to anybody keeping tabs on evangelical Christians. They give us a great deal of information. Not only do these reports cover the previous year, but they also give us hints about evangelicals’ strategies for the year(s) ahead. They even reveal the various stresses on evangelical leaders’ minds! So today, let’s check out this year’s report for some basic stats.
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Sermongate: The Seriously Misplaced Priorities of the Evangelical Old Guard
In the various reactions to this mini-scandal that we’ve seen, possibly the worst hot takes of all come from his political enemies in evangelicalism: the Old Guard, whose members work to make the SBC even more regressive, racist, misogynistic, and cruel than it already is. Indeed, their reaction to Sermongate reveals a seriously misplaced set of priorities. Today, let’s check out their reaction — and see how they destroy their own claims to possessing a superior set of morals and ethics over all other flavors of Christianity.
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Ed Litton: Evangelicals React to His Plagiarism Scandal
Hi and welcome back! Last week, we heard about a minor scandal brewing in evangelicalism (and for once, it’s not a sex scandal). Ed Litton, the newly-elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), plagiarized a series of sermons from the previous SBC president, J.D. Greear. As one might expect, Read more
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#SBC21: Meet Randy Adams, the FOURTH SBC Candidate
I’m sure Randy Adams thought the SBC’s election this week would run along similar lines — or at least give him a chance to publicize his accusations against the main leaders of his denomination. Make no mistake: he’s got a lot of those accusations.
From Patreon
Ed Litton Just Became the New President of the SBC
Today, let’s look at the SBC meeting, the election of Ed Litton, and just the sheer audacious state of these guys.
SBC Watching
Russell Moore Wants Authoritarianism, Just Without Scandals
I had not yet learned that authoritarianism itself precludes sincerity or faithfulness in Christianity. Individual Christians might cultivate these traits, but there is no way to have a whole group of them reliably doing the same thing. Sooner or later, a bad-faith actor gets into that group — and wrecks it, often before it’s even really gotten off the ground.
SBC Watching
Russell Moore: Not really a hero
In these two letters, Moore tries very hard to portray himself as a man of deep principles and great morality: a hero in every sense of the word, fighting hard against the enemies of good in the halls of power in his denomination. Alas, his actual behavior doesn’t quite support that portrayal. Today, we’ll see how Russell Moore fits into his own self-presentation as a big damn hero.
Analyzing Christianity
Church Plants: Making Awful Lemonade Out of SBC Lemons
Yes, the SBC ended up with a small net positive in church additions to their denomination. Much of it seems to have come from church plants, meaning brand-new churches. But that number isn’t one to celebrate, as we’ll see today.