Southern Baptists and the Southern Baptist Convention

10 former SBC presidents sign letter in support of ERLC

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“The letter, signed by Bart Barber, Ed Litton, J.D. Greear, Steve Gaines, Fred Luter, Bryant Wright, James Merritt, Tom Elliff, Jim Henry and Jimmy Draper, is a response to recent calls from some corners to shutter the entity.” - Baptist Press

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Can the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission survive Trump 2.0?

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“…some of the president’s policy decisions and personal conduct have clashed with Baptist ethics and beliefs. That’s left the ERLC, which speaks to ethical issues and public policy debates, occasionally at odds with the denomination’s 12.7 million members, leading to three attempts to disband or defund the agency over the past decade.” - RNS

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“A recent critique of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission evinces the decline in Protestant institutions, which is bad news for America.”

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“A recent critique complains that the ERLC… is ‘too busy with woke stuff to help conservative policy efforts.’ The article doesn’t detail what qualifies as ‘woke,’ since ERLC’s positions remain unchanged. Instead, the article claims ERLC has become ‘irrelevant’ ” - Juicy Ecumenism

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