#southernbaptists — Public Fediverse posts
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"Many hundreds of kids have been raped, sexually assaulted, and sexually abused by Southern Baptist pastors. Southern Baptist leaders have known about this for decades, and in 2019, the Abuse of Faith series brought widespread media attention to the problem. Since then, it seems every week has brought still more headlines. …
The film attempts to discredit survivors, both dead and alive."
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Christa Brown, a survivor of sexual abuse at the hands of a Southern Baptist minister when she was a teen, responds to CrossPolitic's recent film claiming that the Southern Baptist Convention has gotten "played" by a conspiracy of women eager to undermine evangelicalism:
"The film is deeply misogynistic. It’s also a propaganda film of abuse denialism."
#SouthernBaptists #SexualAbuse #pedophilia
/1https://christabrown.substack.com/p/the-southern-baptist-convention-did
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And the defensive posture coming from groups like this always freely employs lies, since lies told to do the Lord's work aren't, they want to imagine, lies at all.
Meanwhile people with eyes wide open are walking away from religious groups like this (there are definitely strong parallels with sectors of US Catholicism) — walking away in droves for very good reasons.
#WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #women #SexualAbuse #misogyny #ConspiracyTheories
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They are furious that the Southern Baptist Convention apologized for its support of slavery and segregation. They want to claim that it was forced to issue that apology by wicked forces trying to tear the SBC down.
When you start from these starting points — I'm right; I'm holy; God is on my side; you are not right or holy; you are on the devil's side — there is nowhere to go except on the defensive.
#WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #women #SexualAbuse #misogyny #ConspiracyTheories
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Their starting point: women are trying to undermine evangelical churches, because women are (fill in the blank: wicked is the starting word). Also key to the starting point: evangelical churches are always right and holy and never make mistakes and anyone calling on them to admit or apologize for mistakes is doing the devil's work.
#WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #women #SexualAbuse #misogyny #ConspiracyTheories
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Sarah Stankorb offers a fascinating in-depth report on how Southern Baptist leaders and their hard-right allies including anti-feminist writer Megan Basham are using conspiracy theories to try to smear and discredit women who have come forward to report sexual abuse at the hands of Southern Baptist pastors.
#WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #women #SexualAbuse #misogyny #ConspiracyTheories
/6https://sarahstankorb.substack.com/p/doug-wilsons-entourage-publishes
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"The Trump years are similarly giving up the white evangelical game. ...
It’s not just about abortion. The fixation on abortion is revealing of larger tendencies in white evangelicalism—prizing order and control, gravitating toward certainty, simplifying moral complexity—that has made those within it susceptible to authoritarianism."
#abortion #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #ProLife #Trump
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"At least it’s the one they most often cite, and you would be a fool to take them all at their word. ...
In truth, on the movement level, abortion has always been a fig leaf for other, less defensible issues since the 1970’s, when Religious Right leaders seized on it as a new, politically galvanizing cause, once defending segregation in religious schools became too gauche."
#abortion #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #ProLife #Trump
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Raised in the household of Southern Baptist missionaries to Africa, Holly Berkley Fletcher knows the "pro-life" ethos of white evangelical Trump voters inside out; she used to promote that ethos herself. Now she's calling the bluff of white evangelical "pro-life" folks on the abortion issue:
"Abortion is THE reason white evangelicals have supported Donald Trump, the basis of their devilish bargain."
#abortion #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #ProLife #Trump
/1https://hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com/p/the-time-i-was-a-pro-life-activist
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"[House Speaker and born-again Southern Baptist] Mike Johnson says he has no concerns about Trump's name appearing in the Epstein files."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Epstein #Trump #pedophiles #EconomicElites #coverup #MikeJohnson #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists
/9https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/important-update-articles-of-impeachment
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"And then NPR reported that when he got to the detention facility, they took trophy photos with him, like he was a slave or an animal that they caught out in the wild. And he wasn't the only one that they did that to.
So somebody tell me, how is it acceptable for David Easterwood to be a pastor when he is condoning this kind of conduct? And not just condoning it."
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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"Now contrast that gospel message to what we have been seeing by ICE and the terrorism that they have engaged in on the streets of St. Paul, Minneapolis and surrounding suburbs and including outstate Minnesota where they kicked in the man's door and came in with big guns and took him out."
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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"Someone help me understand how it's possible to hold both roles with integrity, with honor, because the gospel that I believe in, the foundation, says that we are to love our neighbor as we love ourselves."
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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Joy-Ann Reid addresses "people who have a problem with the fact that we came into the church to confront an injustice and do not have a problem with the fact that you have an ICE director, not just an ICE agent, as some people have said, but the director of the ICE field office in the state of Minnesota, also serving as a pastor at Cities Church in St. Paul."
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
/10https://www.joyannreid.com/p/america-2026-a-tale-of-two-dons-the
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"I've always said this, folks, you need to publicly hear and see from faith leaders, especially white Christians. You need like a public face. You need a reclaiming of Christianity, of religion, of religious values, of religious language. Because you and I know this, Robbie, and this is much to the chagrin of many progressives and liberals.
They say religion's stupid. You guys are idiots."
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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Wajahat Ali (who is Muslim) responds by underscoring how critically important it is for people of faith, for other white Christians, to challenge this white supremacist distortion of Christian faith. He says that progressives and anti-religionists are making a huge mistake in taunting and not supporting those believers who are trying to wrest ownership of the Christian tradition from MAGA:
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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"I mean, part of it is that because inside of white Christianity, the largest Protestant expression of Christianity stems directly from this move to say that, oh, no, actually enslaving others is completely compatible with the gospel and the worship of Jesus and the worship of white Jesus."
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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"They were like, No, no, no. We think this is perfectly consistent with the gospel and the Jesus that we worship. They founded an entire denomination on that. And that denomination has become the largest Protestant expression of Christianity in the country today. So if we're confused about, like, why is this so easily acceptable?"
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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"This is the denomination I grew up in, was founded in 1845. And they were founded that year because they decided that they could no longer be in fellowship with their Northern brethren because the Northern brethren were saying to them, It's inconsistent to call yourself Christian and enslave others based on the color of their skin."
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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Robert T. Jones tells Wajahat Ali that he grew up Southern Baptist with roots in Mississippi, and has a degree from a Southern Baptist seminary. When a demonstration happened at a church in St. Paul last Sunday pastored by the head of ICE in that area, Jones noticed right away that this was not just any church: it was a Southern Baptist church. He says:
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians
/1https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/magas-white-christian-nationalist
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A pastor is a leader of the militarized force terrorizing his community. A sex shop has transformed itself to help serve its neighbors. The words of Jesus to the religious leaders are fulfilled.
'Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you.'”
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #SouthernBaptists
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"Later, I saw an article about a Minneapolis sex shop that pushed aside their adult toys and other products so volunteers can use the space to organize needs to help immigrants and other vulnerable people in the community."
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #SouthernBaptists
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"There are two stories I’ve thought about in contrast with each other this week. The first was the Southern Baptist pastor in St. Paul, Minnesota, who is also the acting field director for the St. Paul ICE office."
~ Brian Kaylor
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #SouthernBaptists
/12https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/weekly-roundup-jan-23
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"The U.S. Department of Justice quickly promised to press charges against the protesters and many pastors, with three individuals arrested on Thursday."
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #SouthernBaptists
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"While ICE terrorizes people in the Twin Cities, the acting director for the St. Paul field office is also one of the pastors at a Southern Baptist congregation there. After learning about the dual roles of David Easterwood, a group of activists interrupted Sunday worship on Jan. 18 to protest ICE, Easterwood, and the church."
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #SouthernBaptists
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"In 1845, a group of pro-slavery Baptists created the Southern Baptist Convention to defend enslavers serving as missionaries. One hundred and eighty years later, SBC leaders defend a pastor serving as an ICE leader."
~ Brian Kaylor
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #SouthernBaptists
/9https://wordandway.org/2026/01/23/the-line-from-enslaver-missionaries-to-an-ice-pastor/
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"'You cannot worship a Savior on Sunday who was crucified by a violent State, while the rest of the week acting as a violent agent of an unjust state force who is killing and targeting Americans according to hate,' added Denker, author of Disciples of White Jesus. 'Christian Nationalism is diametrically opposed to the gospel of Jesus.'"
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"As videos of the protest quickly spread on social media Sunday, Angela Denker, a Lutheran minister in Minneapolis, praised the activists 'for holding [Eastwood] and his congregation accountable.'"
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"[Jonathan] Parnell [lead pastor of Cities Church] also serves on the board of trustees of Bethlehem College and Seminary in Minneapolis, a school founded by Baptist Calvinist preacher John Piper. Last week, a professor at that school used the Sunday service at another church in the area to pray for God to bless ICE and 'break the teeth' of ICE’s opponents."
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"David Easterwood, who is one of the pastors listed on the website of Cities Church in St. Paul, appeared on C-SPAN in October as acting director for the St. Paul ICE field office. Speaking during a press conference with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Easterwood talked about being 'proud' of leading his ICE team."