Thread by @scott_m_coley

Just one thing to add.

It is beyond ludicrous for a prince of the SBC's Conservative Resurgence to express concern over censorship among Catholics. Conservative Catholics can say just about anything they please, without fear of any reprisal whatsoever.

https://twitter.com/scott_m_coley/status/1323084675041140736

Censorship is the calling card of conservative Protestants who insist on ideological conformity.

Now it would be one thing if this insistence on conformity were strictly or even primarily theological.

But the worst-kept secret of the Conservative Resurgence is that the reforms of the '80s and '90s were motivated as much by devotion to cultural and political conservatism as a commitment to God's Word.

Three decades on, theology faculty at SBC seminaries teach *heresy* about the Trinity without the slightest reprimand.

Nor does there appear to be much emphasis on conformity to Biblical ethics, judging from the SBC's institutional stance on sexual misconduct.

It's not about doctrine, and it's not about Biblical morality.

So the upshot of the Resurgence seems to be that SBC luminaries like Mohler are permitted to use their platform to pontificate on subjects from economics to the papacy without any objection from the rank and file.

I'm sure there's some internal political calculation behind Mohler's recent turn on national politics. I'd venture to guess that it's been focus-grouped.

But in the broader context of the church and its mission, Mohler and his ilk have badly miscalculated.

If these men insist on playing culture warrior instead of attending to the social infirmities that my generation stands to inherit, they will continue to preside over a dying denomination.

Caring for orphans and immigrants is a sacred expression of corporate worship, and believers of my generation want to go to church. We are weary of effortless civil religion that serves politicians rather than the poor.