The bubbas-that-be in the SBC
How Russell Moore fell afoul of them.
Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, speaks June 12, 2019, during the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex in Birmingham, Alabama. RNS photo by Butch Dill
June 9, 2021
(RNS) If you think it’s a coincidence that two accusatory letters from Russell Moore were leaked just before the Southern Baptist Convention convenes in Nashville, Tennessee, next week, I’ve got a big granite mountain east of Atlanta to sell you.
The main business of the annual meeting will be to elect a new SBC president to follow J.D. Greear, who, because the 2020 meeting was canceled due to COVID-19, has served two one-year terms.
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On a recent Friday afternoon, Dwight McKissic sat at a folding table in his three-car garage, on a cul-de-sac in Arlington, Texas, discussing the role that race plays in a growing divide among American evangelicals. McKissic is sixty-four, with a trim white goatee and an imposing stature. For the past thirty-eight years, he has served as the lead pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church, which he grew from a few dozen people to roughly four thousand congregants. In the process, he has become a prominent member of the Southern Baptist Convention, which, with more than fourteen million members, is the largest Protestant denomination in the United States. But McKissic is also one of a growing number of pastors of color who may leave the S.B.C. next week, amid allegations that the organization won’t collectively acknowledge the realities of systemic racism. “I’m hanging on by a thread,” he told me. “Dozens of other pastors have already called me to ask w
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary renames its undergraduate college
Fort Worth Star-Telegram 1 hr ago David Silva Ramirez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Jun. 9 Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth announced Wednesday that it is renaming its undergraduate college, four years after it was renamed to honor the seminary s second president.
The undergraduate college, which was founded in 2005 as The College at Southwestern, is now Texas Baptist College.
In 2017, the college was renamed L.R. Scarborough College under the leadership of former President Paige Patterson, who experienced public turmoil in 2018 over his handling of sexual abuse claims and previous comments he made about abuse.
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