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The best place to hide Pedophiles, after the Republican Party, is in the Church.

He Remade the Southern Baptist Convention in His Image.
Then Came the Abuse Allegations

“He talks way more about nudity, the male body, being naked in spas in Europe [or] being naked in general than [he does] God, or his Baptist background,”

Connections with The Squeaker Of The House, Mike Johnson
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/quiet-collapse-southern-baptist-convention/

#SouthernBaptist #PaulPressler #SouthernBaptistConvention #Republican #GoodOldPedophiles #GOP

Started four more #wikipedia articles for April: Elizabeth Rhodes Jackson (1875-1955) wrote fantasy books and stories set in #Boston https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Rhodes_Jackson Adrienne Remenyi von Ende (1873-1945) was a Hungarian-born #soprano and voice teacher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Remenyi_von_Ende Kathleen Moore Mallory (1879-1954) and Carrie T. Burritt (1870-1955) were heads of women's mission boards in the #SouthernBaptist and #FreeMethodist denominations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Moore_Mallory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_T._Burritt @wikiwomeninred

Rutherford, who commissioned the Westminster Assembly, calls Christians to seek their Lord rather than the world’s glories. He invokes Naboth’s land-lust and Haman’s rage at a rival’s honor — both feverish for worldly things. Rutherford diagnoses “this age” with that same fever. The diagnosis fits every age. The cure is reorienting desire toward Christ rather than the neighbor’s vineyard or the rival’s laurels.

#reformeddoctrine #southernbaptist

Eternal Security

This is also known as “once saved, always saved.” It’s the belief giving Christian believers with an absolute assurance of their final salvation.

Its development, especially in Protestantism, has given rise to a plethora of different interpretations. Especially when defining aspects of determinism, libertarian free will & the significance of personal perseverance.

In the early 5th century, Augustinian soteriology views of predestination by predetermination came about, they didn’t validate Eternal Security. Soteriology is the doctrine of salvation.

By the 16th century, this idea became meshed into the theology of John Calvin & other reformers. Calvinist circles initially embraced Eternal Security under the name of “perseverance of the saints.” Eventually, the name became a synonym of the Calvinist doctrine of perseverance independent of its practical interpretations.

Then in the early 20th century, Eternal Security started to become a defining doctrine of Southern Baptist traditionalism. Around the same time, it also became a part of Plymouth Brethren theology. In this, the 2 forms represents its main form today.

In the 1980s, the Free Grace movement voiced that Eternal Grace was independent of the idea of the “Hyper-Grace” idea.

Eternal Security is based on the faith that the believer is an elect by divine determination. This is in Calvinist circles & has the minority worldview.

In some non-Calvinist circles & the prevailing worldview, Eternal Security is based on the faith that regeneration leads to unconditional perseverance & then salvation.

In other non-Calvinist circles & currently growing in the Free Grace views, Eternal Security is based on the faith that regeneration leads to salvation independent of perseverance.

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#16thCentury #1980s #5thCentury #Augustinians #Calvinist #Christian #Determinism #DivineDetermination #Early20thCentury #EternalSecurity #FreeGraceMovement #HyperGrace #JohnCalvin #LibertarianFreeWill #Perseverance #PerseveranceOfTheSaints #PlymouthBrethen #Predestination #Protestantism #Reformers #Regeneration #Salvation #Soteriology #SouthernBaptist #SouthernBaptistTraditionalism

#SouthernBaptist #ethics leader #BrentLeatherwood resigns after pressure from #MAGA #extremists

Brent Leatherwood, president of the #SBC’s Ethics and #ReligiousLiberty Commission (ERLC), recently resigned after years of criticism, primarily from #rightwing MAGA #cultists who argued he wasn’t doing enough to promote #Trumpsagenda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8syBCdbLLBY

the Catholic church, Southern Baptists, and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints are all intensely patriarchal, male-dominated religious groups that subordinate women to men.

And in each, it turns out, abuse has long been tolerated and covered up. Go figure.

#SexualAbuse #patriarchy #Republicans #religion #authoritarianism #Catholic #Mormon #SouthernBaptist
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As the commentators go on to point out, Christian religious bodies in which it's now clear there have been shocking levels of abuse of minors and vulnerable people have nothing in common in their doctrines or polities — except for one important thing:

#SexualAbuse #patriarchy #Republicans #religion #authoritarianism #Catholic #Mormon #SouthernBaptist
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The Southern Baptist Convention has voted to exclude churches affirming same-sex marriage, intensifying the debate on LGBTQ+ inclusion. #SouthernBaptist #LGBTQ #Religion
https://ndpost.org/national/southern-baptist-convention-votes-to-ban-churches-affirming-same-sex-marriage/

Southern Baptists Endorse Effort to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage…
“Southern Baptists voted overwhelmingly to call for the overturning of Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage. They were motivated by conservative Christians’ success in reversing Roe v. Wade.” #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #MarriageEquality #legal #SouthernBaptist #Religion #Bigotry

I avoid partisan commentary as a pastor, but we are called to stand up to both parties for what is right. Truth is not partisan. Defending the #SanctityOfLife is right. I’m not #SouthernBaptist, but I was glad to sign this #ERLC petition about #PlannedParenthood: https://erlc.com/policy-content/asking-congress-to-defund-planned-parenthood/

Story time (or, How I Wound Up At Barron #Trump’s Baptism): Back in 2006, I was a bicycle-riding and shaggy-hair-with-a-lip-ring-having wannabe writer wrestling with a lifelong call to ordained ministry. I’d left my #SouthernBaptist upbringing and was attending the decidedly #evangelical Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm. While there I discovered the #Episcopal Church through Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach. I had been confirmed the previous December. /1

Opposing #medical #groups, #SouthernBaptist #Bigots urge #SupremeCourt to back #antitrans #Healthcare #restrictions.

#Children, #Parents, and #Healthcare providers argue #TN and #KY #genderaffirmingcare #bans violate #constitutional #rights.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Tennessee #Kentucky #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2024/oct/28/existential-questions-facing-off-against-major/

“Sadly, the #president of the #SouthernBaptist Convention’s #Ethics #ReligiousLiberty Commission was forced out until he rescinded a statement expressing #respect for Biden’s decision. 'We should all express our #appreciation that President #Biden has put the needs of the nation above his personal #ambition. Despite what some partisans will say, to walk away from power is a #selfless act—the kind that has become all too rare in our culture,' #BrentLeatherwood initially said.

#ThankYouBiden

“This isn’t a bottom-up change,” said Mary Ziegler, a #law professor & historian of the #antiabortion movement. “It aligns w/the #SouthernBaptist Convention trying to figure out how #ultraconservative it’s going to be on #personhood,” she said of the #Christian movement that sees #embryos & #FertilizedEggs as human beings w/ #legal rights. [but not #women]

#ReproductiveRights #IVF #fertility #BodilyAutonomy #MaleSupremacy #evangelism #WomensHealth #health #medicine #privacy #law #SCOTUS #Dobbs

Constitutional amendments require ⅔ approval to pass, and the motion saying the #SBC cooperates only w/ “churches that do not affirm, appoint, or employ a woman as a pastor of any kind” garnered 61% of votes, to 38% who rejected it.

The voice vote on “On the Ethical Realities of Reproductive Technologies & the Dignity of the Human Embryo” was one of a raft of
resolutions, which are understood as statements of #SouthernBaptist belief; they are not rules that come w/enforcement mandates.

#IVF

The #SouthernBaptist Convention on Wednesday approved a measure opposing #IVF as “dehumanizing” & asking “the government to restrain” the practice, a sign of the broadening effort by #conservative #evangelicals & the #antiabortion movement since the fall of #RoeVWade.

#ReproductiveRights #BodilyAutonomy #fertility #WomensHealth #health #medicine #privacy #law #SCOTUS #Dobbs
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/06/12/southern-baptists-ivf-women-pastors/

#Houston #Pastor #EdYoung calls #President #JoeBiden '#godless' in #antiimmigration #sermon

The 87-year-old #SouthernBaptist #pastor continues to push #conservative #talkingpoints on #migrants and #LGBTQ #rights from the stage of his #megachurch.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Texas #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #AntiSemitism #Homophobia #Misogyny #Racism #Transphobia #WhiteSupremacy #Xenophobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://www.chron.com/culture/religion/article/ed-young-biden-godless-19402656.php

A WELL-TRAINED WIFE review: four stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐.

A WELL-TRAINED WIFE: MY ESCAPE FROM CHRISTIAN PATRIARCHY by Tia Levings (St. Martin’s Press/Macmillan, August 6, 2024) is a blunt and staggering account of a woman’s marriage, motherhood, escape, and recovery within the extreme (arguably now mainstream) religious right. You can call it dominionism, you can call it theonomy, you can call it Christian Nationalism: it often requires the sacrifice of women’s bodies to take over the land for Jesus. Levings decided waiting for a savior was a fool’s game: if anyone was going to save her and her children, Tia was that savior.

Thanks to Edelweiss Plus Above the Treeline and Macmillan for sending me this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own.

Reading this memoir was like swimming through razorblades. It’s a book that should be on everyone’s radar right now, a first-person account of what a Duggar-esque life is like from the inside: having baby after baby until your health collapses, listening to radical misogynist teachers, and paying a fortune for their books and conferences when that money could be better used feeding your “full quiver.” Submitting to horrors which the church covers up when you go to them for help. Hearing that this slow, living death, is “God’s plan for your life,” and that if you just submit to your husband more, you’ll be blessed. Not that all of us lived. Some of us are dead.

Having come out of this movement myself in 2001, I recognized each teacher with pure horror as they made their way into this vulnerable young family. Mary Pride. The Pearls. The Ezzos. Doug Philips and Vision Forum, and Duggar guru and pervert Bill Gothard. And finally the “manly” patriarchy of Doug Wilson (Google “doug wilson patriarch,” but hold on to your lunch). Levings’s religious journey took her from Southern Baptist to Reformed Calvinist. It was a rocky road full of crazies.

Since Senator Katie Britt’s wackadoodle kitchen response to the State of the Union address (March 8, 2024) and Kelly Johnson1her professional website presence was scrubbed when her husband got the speakership (wife of Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House), appeared also speaking like a toddler on national television, Jess Piper of Blue Missouri popularized the term “fundie baby voice.” Levings explains that this baby voice comes from the book Fascinating Womanhood by Helen Andelin (1920-2009). The FW website ought to have the tagline “infantilizing women since 1963.”

Levings explains a lot of other things as well about the Quiverfull movement and Christian patriarchy that dovetail perfectly with my experiences and that of many other ex-Quiverfull women. The mental state that gets women into this cult, and also the revelation that wakes women up, are described in a way that outsiders can grasp. The book’s weakness: it mentions way too many twists and turns of the family’s beliefs than Levings can follow up with an explanation of how they played out, and it would be better to just leave out “home church” and “white supremacy” than to mention them in passing.

Reading in context:

A Christian critique of Christian nationalism by Tim Alberta, THE KINGDOM, THE POWER, AND THE GLORY: AMERICAN EVANGELICALS IN AN AGE OF EXTREMISM (HarperCollins, December 5, 2023), makes for good reading and excellent listening, Alberta narrates his audiobook well, and conducted dozens of illuminating interviews for the book.

If you prefer flame-throwing by an avowed atheist who is preparing for the worst after the January 6 insurrection, pick up PREPARING FOR WAR: THE EXTREMIST HISTORY OF WHITE CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM by Bradley Onishi (1517 Media, January 3, 2023). The history is astonishing; Barry Goldwater was telling Republicans to go to war for religious values in 1963, and we’ve forgotten some of the more frightening pronouncements of affable old Ronnie Reagan in the ’80s. Religious anti-democratic sentiments coupled with crazy conspiracy theories go way back. Onishi addresses the Quiverfull movement too; his highly reliable source is Vyckie Garrison.

An excellent companion read to this book: QUIVERFULL: INSIDE THE CHRISTIAN PATRIARCHY MOVEMENT by Kathryn Joyce. You can find out about the scandals that have befallen many patriarchal Christian teachers mentioned in QUIVERFULL in the final chapter of A WELL-TRAINED WIFE.

What I’m reading right now:

THE HONEY WITCH by Sidney J. Shields (Hachette, May 14, 2024).

#TiaLevings #AWellTrainedWife #Quiverfull #ChristianNationalism #ChristianDominionism #Theonomy #cults #SouthernBaptist #ReformedCalvinist #abuse #DomesticViolence #FascinatingWomanhood #FundyBabyVoice #JessPiper #TimAlberta #TheKingdomThePowerAndTheGlory #BradleyOnishi #PreparingForWar #VyckieGarrison #KathrynJoyce

https://jillsreads.com/a-well-trained-wife/

#abuse #AWellTrainedWife #BradleyOnishi #ChristianDominionism #ChristianNationalism #cults #DomesticViolence #FascinatingWomanhood #FundyBabyVoice #JessPiper #KathrynJoyce #PreparingForWar #Quiverfull #ReformedCalvinist #SouthernBaptist #TheKingdomThePowerAndTheGlory #Theonomy #TiaLevings #TimAlberta #VyckieGarrison

Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee faces more abuse lawsuits

https://religionnews.com/2024/02/07/southern-baptist-conventions-executive-committee-faces-more-abuse-lawsuits/

#rns #southernbaptist

#SouthernBaptist leaders release new analysis of their decline

https://onlysky.media/ccassidy/southern-baptist-leaders-release-new-analysis-of-their-decline/
#religion #christianity #baptist #cults

Are people truly unaware that the Southern Baptist Convention resolutely forbids consumption of alcohol by any Southern Baptist? That's not to say that Southern Baptists don't drink (my Southern Baptist family surely did, and big-time, as I was growing up.) It's to say they're "agin" it.

I love the line," Minden is about as far as you can get from a party town." With deep roots in that part of Louisiana, I can say that's right.

#MikeJohnson #SouthernBaptist #alcohol

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/mike-johnson-fought-alcohol-legalization-minden-louisiana-1234951457/

Tim Sledge was a #SouthernBaptist #preacher and writer for 35 years. The driving force behind Sledge’s ultimate rejection of #Christianity was his long-term, up-close observations of #church life. “After living and leading in the church for decades, I saw no consistent evidence of an ongoing #supernatural presence—and I wanted to see that evidence with all that was in me.”

https://new.exchristian.net/2024/01/goodbye-jesus.html
https://youtu.be/viCGMV7So-s
#atheism #atheist #exvangelical

‘Like #WinningtheLottery’: #MikeJohnson’s #Ascent #Excites #ConservativeChristians.

The new #speakeroftheHouse is a #SouthernBaptist #Extremist who #embodies #evangelical #beliefs and #priorities, with a long #history of #work against #abortion and #gayrights.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/us/politics/michael-johnson-house-speaker-evangelicalism.html

#HumanRights and #SouthernBaptist #Protestant #christians

Both in #secular and #religious #contexts, #women have full #rights (just as #men do) to #live, #lead, and #serve as #humanbeings irrespective of their #sexuality or #genderidentification. #HUMANRIGHTS. These rights are #foundational, #unconditional and #irrevocable.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Misogyny #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews

https://pocketshare.speedofcreativity.org/2023/06/22/human-rights-and-southern-baptist-protestant-christians/

Doing a little research after #SBC23

If you have ever identified as #SouthernBaptist, I’d love to hear about your journey.

Why did you leave? Why did you stay? Why are you thinking of leaving?

Please comment & share w/ those outside my circles to include more #SBC voices.