I have written here previously about the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC). That entity has gone awry over the last decade or so– first under the leadership of Russell Moore, and now under Brent Leatherwood.
A website called Christ Over All has been running a very good series on the ERLC. One article explores a pastor’s loss of trust in the agency. Another explores how the agency has become ineffective and no longer plays a role in Washington. Yet another raises a red flag regarding the entity’s embrace of unfetttered immigration, and its efforts to support the religious liberty of Muslims. And another points out how the agency has divided Southern Baptists. Financial transparency is sought in yet another.
A couple of other articles explain how the agency ought to function.
I have provided links for seven articles. Dig in if you have an interest in the Southern Baptist Convention.
TC: Thanks for sharing. There is a lot of material there to ponder.
Fred, the individual churches– and individual Southern Baptists– are not being represented well by their leadership. The majority are conservative and orthodox. But some of these churches are oblivious to what is going on, and don’t attend the national meetings and vote appropriately. Some of them have been taken over by progressive/ moderate leadership during recent years. And some– a minority– were progressive/ moderate for many years.
When the employees of the seminaries and the other agencies/ entities attend the national meeting and vote, it skews things leftward.
And we have a mess because the collective voices of conservative churches and individual Baptists are extinguished.