Southern Baptists and the Southern Baptist Convention

A look at Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission's 2020 agenda

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Goals include “Protection of the Hyde Amendment, which has barred Medicaid funding of abortion since 1976 … Enactment of the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act, which would bar the government from discriminating against adoption agencies and other child welfare entities that refuse to serve in a way that contradicts their beliefs….Defunding Planned Parenthood” - BPNews

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Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality: “Helpful Tools?”

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“The [Founder’s Ministries film, ‘By What Standard?’] begins with the vote on a controversial resolution at the 2019 annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Resolution 9 passed, so the SBC adopted CRT/I as ‘analytical tools [that] can aid in evaluating a variety of human experiences.’” - WORLD

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What’s this inconsistent use of autonomy, anyway?

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“We will see next month what the SBC Executive Committee does with their in-house Credentials Committee that has a process for receiving complaints about churches. I’m presuming that someone filed a complaint about the church at which Paige Patterson is scheduled to speak.

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Randy Adams to be nominated for SBC president

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“Adams said that if elected, he would aim to focus on the SBC’s Great Commission efforts, rebuilding trust among the Convention’s churches, entities and other organizations, reported the Northwest Baptist Witness….The only other nominee for the SBC presidency thus far is R.

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