I’ve spent much of my adult life trying to name & unlearn the habits of #SlaveholderReligion that I inherited as a child of the SBC. I published a book about this earlier this year. So I’ve spent much of today reading closely the @SBTS report @AMBankstw is reporting here...
I expect @albertmohler will get some pushback from angry white nationalists for simply telling the truth about the seminary’s deep complicity in America’s systemic racism. But on the whole, this is the kind of lament that makes white Christians feel good about ourselves.
It confesses that the plantation economy relied on #SlaveholderReligion to justify human bondage, but doesn’t examine the ways that false teaching distorted the hermeneutic the seminary taught. In 72 pages, the report doesn’t mention a single black theologian. 
A large part of unlearning #SlaveholderReligion is acknowledging that the people impacted by the lies of white supremacy have already thought long & hard about what happened & why.
But part of what this report reveals is that white supremacy has never trusted those voices. The spiritual paternalism of #SlaveholderReligion doesn’t go away when SBC concedes that the formerly enslaved are worthy of education or can be integrated into its schools.
Blinded by whiteness, a former SBTS president claimed that churches which had accommodated themselves to white supremacy were a “powerful moderating force.” He imagined Dr King, like the abolitionists of the 19th cen, not as a prophet of gospel freedom but as an “extremist.”
But this kind of self-deception about the role the church plays in perpetuating divisions is precisely why #SlaveholderReligion is the primary indicator of support for Trump’s extremism in public life today.
If we who inherited the lies of #SlaveholderReligion want to be free from them, we must go back & relearn the gospel from those who always knew it demands we join the struggle for human freedom.
My OpEd on this: washingtonpost.com/religion/2018/…
