NAMB 2023 Financials: Not Too Big to Fail
Each year, the North American Mission Board releases its annual Ministry Report, which elucidates more transparency than other SBC entities into their activities though not without reasons for scrutiny. The story of NAMB’s FY2022 ministry report was that they reported $60 million less in assets, mostly driven by stock market declines. FY2023 would be a […]
The Best Theory Explaining What Happened At The SBC This Week
It was a tumultuous week for the Southern Baptist Convention as an attempt was made to oust Brent Leatherwood from his post as head of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. Brent Leatherwood is a liberal activist in charge of the largest Protestant denomination’s lobbying arm. Yet the attempt to oust Leatherwood backfired as Kevin […]
Kevin Smith Accused Of Sexual Harassment, Faking Academic Credentials Following ERLC Fallout
The Southern Baptist Convention has a burn notice out on Kevin Smith, not for holding to Baptist orthodoxy, but rather because he partook in an attempt to oust Brent Leatherwood from his position at the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, and his coup attempt failed. Their narrative is that Smith acted alone while Smith initially […]
Southern Baptist Convention Claims Kevin Smith Acted Alone In Trying To Oust Brent Leatherwood
The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention is bent on advancing the “lone gunman” narrative of the attempted coup at their organization. Kevin Smith was the chairman of the executive committee of the ERLC trustees who has resigned following an attempt to fire Brent Leatherwood from the organization. The attempt failed […]
Southern Baptist Convention Caves, Unfires Brent Leatherwood
https://youtu.be/68Y55NONHPo The termination of Brent Leatherwood did not last long. After a cavalcade of pressure led by Russell Moore and his liberal media allies, the Southern Baptist Convention has reversed course on their biggest win in the last year. Brent Leatherwood is reinstated and Keven Smith, the leader of the ERLC Trustee executive committee has […]
Southern Baptist Convention Fires Brent Leatherwood
https://youtu.be/PlfT2T5pr3s Update: This article is now outdated. The Southern Baptist Convention has since reversed course. In a major announcement that sent shockwaves across social media, the Southern Baptist Convention announced that Brent Leatherwood was fired from the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, an organization he has led since Russell Moore left in 2021. This comes […]
Big Eva Lauds Biden As Heroic For Dropping Out
https://youtu.be/OeTi4Zb3zsA Following Joe Biden’s resignation from running for President with the intention to finish his term, the reaction from major Evangelical institutions has been to celebrate Biden’s selfless decision “for the good of the country.” This is the latest instance of Big Eva pushing a liberal agenda on the most rightwing demographic in the United […]
Andy Stanley Attacks SBC For Kicking Out Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church, Says Christians Can Be Democrats
Andy Stanley came in with a late reaction to the Southern Baptist Convention’s disfellowshipping of Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church this past Sunday. Stanley, the Pastor of North Point Community Church, made the issue of female pastors a sermon illustration of undoing “progress” of “removing barriers.” He then pivots to Rick Warren as an illustration. Stanley […]
Southern Baptist Pastor Arrested On Child Pornography
The bad publicity of the Southern Baptist Convention is not going away. After a disastrous annual meeting where the messengers voted against banning female pastors. Now a pastor has been arrested on four counts of possession of child pornography. Jonathan Elwing, the (now former) pastor of Palm View Baptist Church has been arrested. According to […]
Jeff Wright & Michael Clary Discuss How To Save The Southern Baptist Convention
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVyg7vz9_QI The 2024 Annual Southern Baptist Convention was a disaster and paved the way for the SBC to embrace female pastors, as many of its leaders do. But the fight is not necessarily worth giving up yet. Jeff Wright and Michael Clary joined Team Evangelical Dark Web to strategize moving forward how to recover from […]