Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

Roll to Disbelieve

Home
Nonreligious

SBC (Southern Baptist Convention)

Select a Category Animals AntiMLM Biography Christianity's Decline Current Events Feminism Gaming Guides History Hypocrisy LGBTQIA Lord Snow Presides Meta Off-Topic Politics Religion Reviews Scandals Science Series Super Specials The Games We Play Theology This Present Darkness Uncategorized

Select a Month December 2021 November 2021 October 2021 September 2021 August 2021 July 2021 June 2021 May 2021 April 2021 March 2021 February 2021 January 2021 December 2020 November 2020 October 2020 September 2020 August 2020 July 2020 June 2020 May 2020 April 2020 March 2020 February 2020 January 2020 December 2019 November 2019 October 2019 September 2019 August 2019 July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 January 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013

June 2018

June 02, 2018

Rotted Fruit: Al Mohler and the Conservative Resurgence

We'll see how he secured a movement that is so important to him that he...

May 2018

May 31, 2018

Al Mohler Just Had NO IDEA About All That Sexual Harassment in the SBC.

Every new day brings with it a new revelation about just how terrible the Southern...

May 10, 2018

Cherchez La Femme: The Blaming of Women in Evangelical Churn

Fundagelicals responded to their religion's decline almost immediately, at least on a subconscious level. They...

May 05, 2018

Paige Patterson: When Halfway There Isn’t Good Enough

Poor Paige Patterson. The fallout continues for this domestic-violence-advocating Southern Baptist leader. Why, the SBC...

May 01, 2018

Paige Patterson Is Helping the SBC Out of Its Slump (LSP #40)

Paige Patterson, a bigwig with the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), gave a speech in 2000...

April 2018

April 03, 2018

Frank Page Shows Us What a Mighty Fine Clean Cup the SBC Has (LSP #36)

Well! Welcome back from Easter and our Prodigal Planet special! I wanted to segue briefly to...

February 2018

February 13, 2018

Captain Cassidy’s (Big Ol’ Huge) Deconversion.

In this blog's first year, I spent a few months outlining all the different elements...

January 2018

January 16, 2018

A Church Embezzler Learns Not to Use Christianese Around a Judge (LSP #26)

Stephanie Everett found out exactly what the phrase "full responsibility" means out here in Reality-Land--and...

January 10, 2018

Evangelicalism Is Now Officially Recognized as a Tainted Brand

Christianity is a brand of sorts, and slowly--oh, very slowly!--the religion's leaders are starting to...

December 2017

December 26, 2017

Christmas Services Sure Seem Weird This Year

I think I've heard like a dozen people so far talking about just how militant...

November 2017

November 30, 2017

The Love/Life Principles Seminar: (Not) Making Friends and Influencing People

Today I'll show you what they mean by friendship itself: what a friend is and...

November 29, 2017

The Love/Life Principles Seminar and the Horrendous Friendship Kablooie.

If anything, we discover that the more extremist the flavor of Christianity is, the less...

November 15, 2017

A “Second Glance” at the Subculture That Produced Roy Moore.

When the accusations began flowing against bigot-for-Jesus Roy Moore, that movie showed us exactly why...

November 10, 2017

Another Day, Another TRUE CHRISTIAN™ Hypocrite

In the lifetime of this blog, we've talked often about how hypocritical the most fervent...

October 2017

October 27, 2017

Reconstructionism: Why Fundagelicals Can’t Have Nice Things

Complementarianism is an offshoot of a wackadoodle Christian ideology called Reconstructionism, which has gone from...

October 20, 2017

The Nashville Statement: A Blueprint for Failure

This re-issuing of already-well-known platforms won't surprise anybody who's been around evangelicals for longer than...

September 2017

September 22, 2017

The September 23rd Endtimes Scare and the Problem with Wingnuts

This Endtimes scare has gotten quite a lot of pushback from actual astronomers--and from some...

September 17, 2017

More Bad News for Christianity: The PRRI Survey

The 2017 PRRI study, America's Changing Religious Identity, has brought the religion's leaders yet more...

June 2017

June 11, 2017

The SBC’s Decline Continues (Wanna Hear a Riddle?)

In the immortal words of Cobra Bubbles, things have indeed gone very wrong for them.

June 01, 2017

Church Planting Amid Iron Chariots.

This ancient story is way too potent of a reminder to Christians that their omnipotent...

May 2017

May 30, 2017

Lord Snow Presides #9: Ed Stetzer’s New Gig

With everything going on in Baptist-land lately, I'm just surprised he lasted this long. Lord...

April 2017

April 16, 2017

Ed Stetzer’s Written an Easter Post and It’s Amazingly Bad

In the grand tradition of glurge, his post not only fails spectacularly to persuade those...

April 13, 2017

Robert Bentley is (What Passes For) Big Game Now

One Christian minister rationalized the whole fiasco by claiming that Satan himself had gone a-hunting...

April 11, 2017

The Luv Guv and the Broken System.

Robert Bentley's case reminds us anew that once someone in a broken system gets a...

March 2017

March 15, 2017

When the Question Isn’t “Are They Hateful?” But Rather “Are They Hateful ENOUGH?”

Russell Moore, one of the current presidents of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), is discovering...

January 2017

January 18, 2017

A Creationist Accidentally Exposes the Big Problem with Creationism

I caught this little local news snippet yesterday and thought it was interesting--both for what...

January 11, 2017

When Change Isn’t Possible

Do more of that, and harder. It's a mantra by now. It hasn't actually worked...

January 06, 2017

Oh Noes! The Baptism Drought Continues for the SBC!

The biggest Protestant denomination in the United States continues to suffer serious churn in its...

November 2016

November 29, 2016

Church Discipline: Covenants and Contracts

Church discipline is usually initially presented to members by way of an agreement called a...

October 2016

October 08, 2016

Thom Rainer and His Boxes of Air

Certainly, we shouldn't be surprised that Christians, having finally figured out just how bad the...