SBC amendment to permanently ban women pastors falls short
Measure to permanently ban women pastors in SBC falls short.
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Measure to permanently ban women pastors in SBC falls short.
The narrow failure of the Law Amendment to receive two-thirds affirmation at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting should not give anyone a sense that women in ministry are welcome in the SBC.
Eliza Griswold writes about how a proposal to ban Southern Baptist women from being pastors failed a two-thirds-majority vote and about the far-right side of the Church.
The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., voted to condemn in vitro fertilization while endorsing alternative fertility treatments. The meeting also narrowly missed banning women as pastors. The resolution emphasized the sanctity of embryos, influenced by recent political and legal changes post-Roe v. Wade.
Struggling against the powers that be in the Southern Baptist Convention is nothing new to Dunwoody Baptist Church in North Atlanta.