It’s wrong to frame the Baptist battle as a fight between “true conservatives” versus the “woke.” The battle isn’t left versus right. Instead, it’s over much more elemental concerns, including truth, transparency, corruption, and—ultimately—character. frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/character-is…
For example, there are good-faith arguments to be had about the best institutional methods of dealing with sex abuse. Calling victims “whores” or “crazy” is not among those methods. Nor is describing victim advocates as instruments of a “Satanic scheme.”
When leaders lament, however, that the wrong side won the Civil War or claim that only armed citizens will save cities from “black people,” they do not assure America that the nation’s largest, most powerful denomination has decisively rejected a shameful past.
There is much room for healthy debate and disagreement within the SBC. There should be no room for corruption and cruelty. The true issue in the SBC isn’t ideological. It’s not theological. It’s sin, including sin at the highest levels. frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/character-is…
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