Big-name Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) leader Richard Land had some sad news to share with the flocks last month: Jerry Johnson, a die-hard SBC culture warrior who held important leadership roles within the denomination, had converted to Catholicism. More than that, though, Richard Land had some opinions about this conversion. Read more
Every year’s Annual Report from the Southern Baptists contains a lot of information. But maybe one of the funniest parts of it is always the President’s Address. The previous year’s president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) gives this address to open the Annual Meeting each summer. Usually, it’s a Read more
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
On July 31, Brent Leatherwood resigned his position as the leader of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). He lasted about four years in all, which is pretty good for an SBC leader with as many hardliner enemies as he had. And oh 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
The Southern Baptist Convention, or SBC, has known about their entrenched sex abuse problem for at least a few decades now. Everyone else found out about it in 2019 with ‘Abuse of Faith.’ Since then, however, SBC leaders have done virtually nothing to reform their denomination. The SBC’s biggest names Read more
Next week, Matt Queen finds out what his penalty will be for lying to federal investigators about a sex assault cover-up at a Southern Baptist seminary. Through his lawyer, Queen is trying to make himself seem like a TRUE CHRISTIAN™. Yes, he just made a little bitty oopsie-doodle-boodle! He was Read more
Last week, Christa Brown knocked it out of the park again with a post about a self-serving comment from Philip Robertson about the systemic abuse problem in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). He’s the new Chair of the SBC’s top-ranked Executive Committee (EC), you see, and his hardliner faction is Read more
The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) might be the most public-facing and visible group within the entire Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). For about a decade and a half now, hyperconservative SBC leaders have publicly bristled at the ERLC and its leaders’ decisions. This week, though, the friction between the Read more
The 2024 Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) looms right around the corner. Officially, it begins tomorrow. However, SBC leaders have been busy setting the stage for it for the past week. The day beforehand, as well, Southern Baptists hold a very special magic ritual. In Christianese, they Read more