My best friend is single. He's an amazing, godly guy who, Lord willing, will make an incredible husband and father someday. He and I lived together up until I got married 5+ years ago, and he actually lived with me and my wife for about a month just after we got married. 1/
One thing I've learned in the last 5 years is that, while my wife and I have a built-in "person" in each other, he doesn't. Plenty of nights we eat dinner while watching a TV show, so it's not like it's always an occasion for deep discussion. But he doesn't have that person. 2/
Sep 30, 2021 • 32 tweets • 7 min read
To the survivors of SBC abuse:
You've been ignored far too long. Some of you were heartened at the approval of Grant's motion in June. All of you were discouraged at the EC's failure to act. But the current outcry is the rest of us saying that we hear you, and we're with you
Texas
A few thoughts on yesterday’s @SBCExecComm meeting.
After that utter disaster of a Zoom call, where are the people asking for remote voting and participation for the annual meeting? 1/
The executive leaders of the EC, @ronniefloyd and Greg Addison, have completely failed at providing the committee with workable options, and this has now devolved into an SBC Royal Rumble of sorts. 2/
Sep 28, 2021 • 34 tweets • 13 min read
Time for an explainer on the issues within the Southern Baptist Convention, conflict among the Executive Committee, and our looming polity crisis. Buckle up.
Where to begin? Let's start in 2000. 1/
L. Paige Patterson accomplishes a feat 20 years in the making. The success of the Conservative Resurgence is represented by LPP's reshaping of the BF&M after his election to the presidency of the SBC, a rarity for an entity head. baptistpress.com/resource-libra… 2/
Sep 28, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1. Floyd and his lawyers were informed about the motion ahead of the annual meeting and requested the privilege language be removed. If what you’re saying were the case, the convention lawyers should have conferred with the parliamentarian and chair and ruled it out of order.
The fact that they did not do this should be proof positive that the conflict of interest you’re describing re: insurance is not the case.
Jun 7, 2021 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
A personal SBC thread:
My wife is (thankfully) out of the SBC loop. She puts up with my love for and connection to the convention, but she just isn’t plugged in like I am. When our messes make the news, however, she does read about it, usually 12-24 hours after I have. 1/
The other night she sent me an article about @drmoore’s departure from the ERLC and the letter he wrote his trustees, and she asked me if the people who do the things he described are the kind of folks we want to continue associating with. 2/
Feb 11, 2019 • 21 tweets • 8 min read
Since @HoustonChron dropped their article Sat. night on sexual abuse in SBC churches, I've tried to reflect and listen. To survivors, who have spoken out in gratitude that their stories are finally being heard--and to leaders, who have condemned this behavior and promised change.
My heart is broken to know that we have collectively allowed such behavior to go on almost entirely unchallenged. But I haven't wept, and I think it's because I'm not surprised. Some of that article was brand new information, but most of it we already knew.
