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25 June 2021

National Review blasts a bunch of Baptists

by Jon

Kevin Williamson blasts everyone to the right of Ed Litton:

Ed Litton, a moderate reformer, has been elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention — and the Reverend R. Albert Mohler has been served his mess of pottage, cold and unsalted.

The Reverend Mohler, the publicity-hog president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville … made the usual binary-choice argument in the usual schoolboy fashion, treating the pro-abortion agenda and sexual radicalism of the Democratic Party as a moral get-out-of-jail-free card for the GOP, for Donald Trump, and, consequently, for himself. … But his political works were not sufficient to save him: In the four-way race for SBC president, he didn’t even make the runoff. He simply was not quick enough on his theological feet to get out in front of the Baptist parade.

A moribund organization engages in a bitter fight over control of its scanty remaining resources, to the great detriment of the organization and its mission and to the material benefit of a few would-be media personalities and frustrated office-seekers. Sound familiar?


A couple of notes:

  1. The SBC CRT controversy managed to predate the Republican version by a good three or four years, beginning with the recommendations from SBTS and SEBTS faculty, and then the MLK50 conference. Whatever your thoughts about CRT, the SBC isn’t reacting to a Fox News cycle.
  2. While this article was criticized by notable SBCers, it was treated as “harsh but fair” by several others.

    Michael Linton
    Samuel James
    DJ Jenkins
    Samuel Perry


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