I can't even read your report--it sends me into anger and tears. Scanning, my eye was caught by your need to surround the word gospel with quotation marks when referring to the "good news" as currently taught by the SBC.
Next I gagged to see that the right is trying to replace the term "Christian nationalism" with "biblical nationhood"--just as CBMW in 1987 tried to replace the words "inequality" or "patriarchy" with that six-syllable monster "complementarianism."
The exec director of CBMW wants to be president of the Southern Baptist Convention? Say no more. A buddy of Al Mohler.
And women voting at this convention is exercising authority and therefore not biblical? "The whole thing is egalitarian," which equals bad?
In the 1980s and 90s, I watched the SBC being taken over by these egoist males. They insisted that women pastors of SBC churches become chaplains in prisons or hospitals--example: Nancy Sehested.
As Randall Balmer and others report, the SBC in the 1970s voted four times to continue legal access to abortion as ruled by the Supreme Court. Then Paul Weyrich in 1978 found a way to mobilize white evangelicals into voting activists.
We are still witnessing the backlash to biblical feminism, jumpstarted in 1974 by the publication of All We're Meant To Be by Letha Dawson Scanzoni and Nancy Hardesty, but actually centuries old.
Thank you, Beth and others, for continuing to witness to the good news preached by Jesus to both women and men. "All will be well, and all will be well, and all manner of thing will be well," as Julian of Norwich said.
Thank you very much for all your efforts to put this news into historical perspective and to explain the names. I am going to message you about translation research I have been doing after being inspired by a book study my pastor did with your book.
I can't even read your report--it sends me into anger and tears. Scanning, my eye was caught by your need to surround the word gospel with quotation marks when referring to the "good news" as currently taught by the SBC.
Next I gagged to see that the right is trying to replace the term "Christian nationalism" with "biblical nationhood"--just as CBMW in 1987 tried to replace the words "inequality" or "patriarchy" with that six-syllable monster "complementarianism."
The exec director of CBMW wants to be president of the Southern Baptist Convention? Say no more. A buddy of Al Mohler.
And women voting at this convention is exercising authority and therefore not biblical? "The whole thing is egalitarian," which equals bad?
In the 1980s and 90s, I watched the SBC being taken over by these egoist males. They insisted that women pastors of SBC churches become chaplains in prisons or hospitals--example: Nancy Sehested.
As Randall Balmer and others report, the SBC in the 1970s voted four times to continue legal access to abortion as ruled by the Supreme Court. Then Paul Weyrich in 1978 found a way to mobilize white evangelicals into voting activists.
We are still witnessing the backlash to biblical feminism, jumpstarted in 1974 by the publication of All We're Meant To Be by Letha Dawson Scanzoni and Nancy Hardesty, but actually centuries old.
Thank you, Beth and others, for continuing to witness to the good news preached by Jesus to both women and men. "All will be well, and all will be well, and all manner of thing will be well," as Julian of Norwich said.
Thank you very much for all your efforts to put this news into historical perspective and to explain the names. I am going to message you about translation research I have been doing after being inspired by a book study my pastor did with your book.
Everybody wants slaves. Any excuse. And how is THAT the messsage of Jesus?