JD Greear, Neil Shenvi vs Megan Basham

When Critical Race Theory was at its height in the church. JD Greear was president of the Southern Baptist Convention ushering in an era of wokeness that persisted well into this decade. In Megan Basham’s new book Shepherds For Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda, JD Greear is a frequent example because of his offenses and influence in broader Evangelicalism.

Neil Shenvi is Big Eva’s chosen apologist to critique wokeness. The problem is he goes to JD Greear’s church, and thus has no credibility on the issue due to this compromise. He took to social media to insinuate that Megan Basham misrepresents JD Greear in the introduction of her book. He posted a thread of five images, four of which had to do with Greear.

In the video, JD Greear clearly teaches that Black Lives Matter is a gospel issue. At the end, he tries to distinguish Black Lives Matter from the organization and website, erroneously claiming that they are hijacking a movement. JD Greear places no distance between his sentiment on the gospel and the Black Lives Matter movement in his viral 2020 video. Megan Basham fairly characterized his words here.

We covered this at the time. JD Greear is clearly saying that those who left over his wokeness and Branch Covidianism are politicized and then likens them to the Synagogue of Satan.

In this footnote, Megan Basham correctly reads that Kristen Du Mez attributed political motivations to Billy Graham’s patriarchal theology.

In this footnote, JD Greear does not provide receipts for his claim, but Basham did supply the receipt for hers.

Perhaps Neil’s best of the worst. Neil Shenvi appears to dispute the that those who raise objections to Critical Race Theory, feminism, and homosexuality are characterized as divisive by JD Greear here. The context of who JD Greear is shows that he was talking about his critics. While JD Greear would come out as egalitarian after his term ended, he was promoting Black Lives Matter and “pronoun hospitality” while president of the SBC.

Neil Shenvi is trying to defend JD Greear’s record, but he ended up reinforcing just how bad he was and is.