It’s unclear whether the potential schism in the Southern Baptist Convention will spread to the breaking point, fizzle out, or get papered over
Recent Southern Baptist celebrity refugees Russell Moore and Beth Moore have quit. Photo: Mark Humphrey/AP; Living Proof Ministries A generation ago, hard-core conservatives took over the largest Protestant church denomination in the U.S., the Southern Baptist Convention, and birthed what we now call “the Christian right.
The crisis in this supremely self-righteous religious grouping is now being dramatized by challenges from some of its best-known public figures. In March, famed Bible teacher Beth Moore, who has supported sexual-abuse victims and expressed frustration about the limitations placed on women in the SBC, told Religion News Service she is “no longer a Southern Baptist.
The timing is not coincidental: Moore’s main accusations were aimed at the denomination’s executive committee just before its next annual meeting, as the Washington Post explains: Right-wing Baptist critics of both Moores like to call them “liberals” or secular-minded troublemakers furious about Trump’s massive popularity among the conservative evangelical rank-and-file. That’s hard to back up. Russell Moore has been a staunch defender of conservative Baptist doctrine, promoting “complementarianism” , the anti-abortion movement, opposition to same-sex marriage, and an expansive definition of “religious liberty” to protect church-based discrimination.
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