I started a response to Douglas Wilson’s latest contributions on this subject (see here and here). The treatment ran into several thousand words on the first point, and I realized I would need a different approach. Thinking over how to address this in a helpful way, I concluded we need to step back just a […]
Why did Paige Patterson change his story?
Reading up on the recent Paige Patterson roil in the Southern Baptist Convention, I saw a curious discrepancy. His two versions of the same story don’t add up. It’s hard to miss hearing about it: Washington Post covered it twice, Atlantic did a spot, Baptist Press ran damage control, Patterson on the Southwestern Seminary website […]
Russell Moore, the SBC, and the Death of Outrage
I have been critical of both David French and of Russell Moore in the past, but the latest from French on Moore and the Southern Baptist Convention certainly deserves its props. Examining the backlash against Moore over his anti-Trump stances, French highlights what the religious right in a previous generation would have righteously referred […]