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2020 SBC Pastors' Conference President responds to questions raised on social media about some platform personalities

Only hours after questions were raised on social media as Baptist Press released the list of platform personalities invited to the 2020 SBC Pastors' Conference held June 7-8 at Orlando's Orange County Convention Center, did David Uth, the pastors' conference president, respond back on Baptist Press. "Uth's remarks followed social media comments both opposing and supporting the selection of Wong in particular, although many posts also mentioned the non-Southern Baptist pastors." Accordingly, Uth and the staff will continue "monitoring social media to determine whether sentiments are voiced that would endanger... Read more →

Are leaders of 2020 SBC Pastors' Conference making a statement with the platform speakers in Orlando?

The SBC Pastors' Conference is an inspirational event traditionally held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. Usually, the speakers are well-known in Christian circles and have national platforms as either pastors in mega-churches, stadium speakers, best-selling authors, podcasts, sports' stars, or perhaps a combination of the above. One kind of speaker that is particularly controversial, at least since 2016, is political figures. The 2020 SBC Pastors' Conference is scheduled for June 7-8 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fl. Its officers are David... Read more →

Karen Swallow Prior on John Piper's Advice to Women in Troubled Marriages

OK. I'm not much on Twitter. I've never liked it. I don't think I ever will. Moreover, it can get very vicious, even more vicious than Facebook. Yet it appears it's definitively made its mark for usefulness even among Christians, so I logged on to my old account this AM and posted a link to the piece I put up on my blog entitled, "How do Patterson Critics View John Piper on Spousal Abuse?," a piece asking some of the leaders among Southern Baptists who are bent on seeing Paige... Read more →

How do Patterson Critics View John Piper on Spousal Abuse?

Since the social media mob, led by @JonathanMerritt, @edstetzer, and @KSPrior, judges Paige Patterson's counsel to women in troubled marriages so entirely unChristian as to merit his immediate dismissal as President of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, one wonders what they think evangelicals ought to do with evangelical icon, @JohnPiper, and desiringGod.org for the counsel Piper offers to women in troubled marriages. Check it out. For that matter, thoughts about John Piper's counsel to women in troubled marriages from high-profile Christian celebrities and organizations could be helpful in determining exactly why... Read more →

It's settled. Women can't vote in a Baptist church. No wait. COULDN'T vote in a Baptist church

Below is a snippet from an association meeting in Hallifax County held at the Kehukey [sic] Meeting- House August 5, 1771. The quote is selected from many questions posed to the association for comment. --James Sprunt Historical Monograph No. 5. Minutes of the Kehukey Association (BAPTIST) With Letter of Joel Battle Fort, and with Introduction and Notes by Kemp Plummer Battle, LL.D, PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY 1904 Read more →

What does biblical submission for wives include? John Piper answers

WARNING! Every female take serious care: What you are about to see and hear may very well disturb you. Don't click on this video if you're already in a bad mood. And for heaven's sake, if you've had a good day and looking forward to a nice weekend with your husband, don't click on this video. Finally, if you've been a bit suspicious we biblical complementarians are shifting toward becoming more and more theologically doofy than ever, please, please, please don't watch this video. John Piper draws hermeneutical blood: We've... Read more →

Does Gender Egalitarianism reduce to a 'false gospel'?

I remain hopelessly convinced that a correct and consistent reading of biblical revelation inevitably leads one to embrace some form of gender complementarianism. Hence, I tend agree with the broad biblio-theological contours of The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW). I say "broad" because just as there is hard Calvinism and soft Calvinism so there is hard complementarianism and soft complementarianism all of which have representatives in the Southern Baptist Convention. For at least the last decade or so, the CBMW has increasingly tilted toward the hard side of... Read more →

Troy Gramling Responds by Peter Lumpkins

Raul Palacios, Executive Pastor, Flamingo Road Church (FRC), Cooper City, Florida, and husband to Heather Palacios, teaching Pastor at FRC, posted a link to Lead Pastor, Troy Gramling’s response to questions raised concerning the recent announcement about his nomination to presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention Pastor’s Conference. We thank Pastor Palacios for furnishing us with this link. Furthermore, we’re grateful Pastor Gramling took seriously the questions raised toward his nomination, even if the questions were being raised by those outside the sphere of leadership in the Southern Baptist Convention.... Read more →

LifeWay's Faux Pas in Banning Magazine

I am a complementarian. Without apology, I embrace complementarianism. I believe the Bible reveals a consistent complementarian understanding of gender. Not only so, the BF&M clearly states where the overwhelming majority of Southern Baptists stand--they are complementarian too. Thus, I have my theological feet squarely planted in the mainstream of my faith community. Now that I have neatly put my personal perspective in place, I have to say Lifeway's recent decision to ban* the September/October issue of Gospel Today, a Georgia-based magazine, must be, at least for me, the most... Read more →

Rosie the Riveter: An American Icon Overturned

Rosie the Riveter is considered the most famous icon representing women's contribution to the success of World War II. Even more, it is not uncommon for Rosie's picture to be scattered across most all issues women have faced since. She represents female power. The Governor from Alaska may have just overturned Rosie as representing the punch of female pizazz. Sarah Palin, who swept the country off its feet by drawing more viewers for her acceptance speech as the traditional do-nothing VP than the Democratic nominee for President gathered for his... Read more →

Wade Burleson: Advocate for Egalitarianism in the Southern Baptist Convention

Since Wade Burleson forfeited his month long fast from blogging six days into it, he's busily been about his strange idea of advocating gender egalitarianism in the Southern Baptist Convention. His latest "oil and water" post positions the two prevailing gender views among evangelicals today--egalitarianism and complementarianism--by profiling two well known evangelical think tanks >>> For egalitarianism, Christians for Biblical Equality (CBE) hones out fresh arguments that advocate a Biblically-based understanding of gender issues with a decided commitment toward evangelical feminism. The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, (CBMW) the... Read more →

Wade Burleson's Complementarianism: An Unnecessary Theological Argument That Is Doomed to Later Destruction

In the final instructions the inspired Apostle offers to Rome, he sees fit to warn the believers there to "watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive." (Romans 16.17-18, ESV). The admonition Paul offers here seems out of sync with the rest of the letter. Heretofore, the Apostle has been content... Read more →