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Does Lifeway Only Carry Women Authors?

A quick perusal through Lifeway, the corrupt and compromised for-profit-publish arm of the Southern Baptist Convention reveals something interesting, which is how deeply it skews towards women authors. It really doesn’t matter what category it’s in. With perhaps the exception of ‘Men’s Bible Studies’, by and large, every segment is basically populated by the same 20 women + Tony Evans and one token dude.

Devotionals & Journals? Ellie Holcomb, Sadie Robertson Huff, Rebekah Lyons, Tony Evans, Sophie Hudson and Paul Tripp

Mixed Bible Studies? Priscilla Shirer, Kelly Minter, Jen Wilkin, Tony Evans, Lysa Terkeust, and Matt Chandler

New and Bestselling Fiction? Tonya Lowe, Lynn Austin, Wanda Brunstetter, Tracie Peterson, Lynette Eason, Colleen Coble, Tessa Afshar, Tonya Lowe again, Terri Blackstock, Lisa Wingate, Francine Rivers, and our first and only man, Joel Rosenberg.

Christian Living: Lysa Terkeurst, Priscilla Shirer, Jackie Hill Perry, Lore Ferguson, Beth Moore, Robin Dance, Sheila Walsh, Mary Demuth, Tony Evans, and then a few guys like Jonathan Parnell, Jared Wilson, JD Greear and J.T English.

Fiction You Might have Missed? Lisa Wingate, Beverly Lewis, Suzanne Fisher, Tracie Peterson, Dani Pettrey, Lisa Harris, Karen Kingsbury, Kelly Long, Shelly Shepherd, Amy Clipson, Kathleen Fuller, Beth Wiseman, and our first and only man, Steven James.

Christian Books on Family Issues? David and Teresa Ferguson, Hillary Ferrer, Kristen Kellen, Dennis and Barbara Rainey, Rosei Mckinney, Laura Booz, Alex Kendrick, Ashley Chestnut, Elizabeth George, Tim and Kathy Keller.

The “Featured Authors” pages also heavily SKU towards women, 17 to 12, and of the men that are featured, most of them have few books featured (Or none at all, such as is the case with Russell Moore), compared to the ladies, which have pages after page dedicated to them.

Not that there’s anything wrong with women writing books, even though half the authors that Lifeway platforms and prominently are pure trash, but it does say something about the organization and the future of the SBC, about who is wielding all the influence, and how the company is more than happy to help them achieve it.

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Guess Which Book Store is Finally Carrying Voddie Baucham’s ‘Fault Lines’?

Four months ago we brought you the story of how Lifeway, the for-profit publishing arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, was carrying a whole lot of theologically wretched books. For years they have been giving a ton of space and advertising for authors like Christine Caine, or having an entire landing page for Sarah Young and her mystical, montanistic, theoerotic book Jesus Calling, selling some 25 variants of it.

Certainly, the decision to platform these women is absolutely par for the course and unsurprising behavior from Lifeway. As we have thoroughly documented, far from being concerned about equipping Southern Baptists with an exquisite selection of the best books that Christendom has to offer, Lifeway’s primary driving factor is the pursuit of the almighty dollar, routinely taking little sidequests along the highways and byways of the Baptist experience, on a mission to attain some of that sweet, sweet filthy lucre. How else can you explain their propensity to stock every sort of soft-covered spiritual strychnine they can put on their shelves in any space not currently occupied by a Beth Moore bible study?

Given this, we were both surprised and yet not that despite selling *some* books by Voddie Baucham, his national bestseller, anti-social justice opus Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastrophe was nowhere to be seen over, even though it had been out for months and was at the top of charts.

It was a National Bestseller, having ranked as high as 5th on USA Today’s top-selling books and #7 on the Wall Street Journal’s. It has a 4.9/5 star rating based on 4300 reviews and was Amazon’s #1 bestseller in Christian Ministry and Church Leadership, as well as is the #1 bestseller in Christian Social Issues. In fact, the kindle book and the audiobook also hold spots #3 and #7, respectively.

Despite the overwhelming success of his book, Lifeway had purposefully chosen to keep it from its shelves and from the hands and heads of potential customers, lest someone become exposed to its apparently intolerably toxic message. Lifeway is willing to offer up compromised wares in order to make a buck, but not enough to risk exposing their readers to anti-social justice, anti-Critical Race Theory messaging.

Until now.

Lifeway has finally buckled and has started selling it, the lure of cash money too great to pass up.

We’ve reached out to Lifeway multiple times to ask them when they started selling it, or why they held off for so long, and they have chosen not to respond to us. Despite this book being #1 in Evangelism on Amazon, it is nowhere to be seen in that category for Lifeway. On Barnes and Noble, seven months after being released it currently ranks 5,208 out of all books sold, putting it well above anything by Beth Moore or Christine Caine. Even so, it is not featured prominently in any way, and when you search for Voddie’s book, it is the very last listing, seven places down.

Still, we are at least glad that the last holdout has finally consented to carry it.

That’s worth something, right?

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Francis Collins Defends Fetal Tissue Research in New Interview, Says God would Approve

Last month we wrote about how National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins, the acclaimed scientist, geneticist, and professing Christian, released a statement for PRIDE month where he publically revealed himself to be thoroughly compromised on the Christian’s view of LGBTQ issues and the scriptures, offering them his personal support as an “ally” and regurgitating all the progressive talking points he could muster.

Coupled with him being the founder of BioLogos, the self-described “Christian organization” that seeks to bridge the bible and evolution while insisting that humans evolved from apes 200,000 years ago and that Adam and Eve never actually existed, along with his low view of Church where he made the case that in-person public schooling is a higher priority than in-person church, openly supporting doing experiments on fetal tissue on account that he doesn’t believe human embryos to be life, but only ‘potential life” and refusing to condemn “pregnant people” language, we have no reason to suppose that this man is a brother.

Now, in his first public interview since announcing he was stepping down from his position as the Director of NIH, Collins again defended his position on using the bodies of aborted babies for scientific experimentation.

“When you get into the details of a particular issue, it often turns out that the conflict that people would assume to be insurmountable can be put into a place where it makes sense; both as a person of faith who believes in the sanctity of human life and the person of science who’s trying to come up with ways that science can save lives. Human fetal tissue is just one of those examples.” 

Collins goes on to argue that experimenting on discarded baby parts makes the most sense, and that critics must “recognize, after all, that people have elective terminations of pregnancy every day, and those materials are being discarded.”

“Suppose it was possible on a rare instance for something that’s about to be discarded with full consent after the decision by the mother to be used to develop something that might save somebody’s life. In that case, I think even God could look at that and go, ‘OK, it’s not the thing that I would have wanted to see happening. Still, as an ethical choice between discarding or using for some benevolent purpose, maybe that’s defensible.’ Now that will make some people uneasy.”

Collins has previously defended the use of fetal cell tissue experimentations, telling CNA in a May 2020 interview.

“I would be the first to say we should not be creating or destroying embryos- human embryos- for research, and we should not be terminating pregnancies for research.

But if there are embryos that are left over after in vitro fertilization- and the hundreds of thousands that are never going to be used for anything, they’ll be discarded- I think it is ethical to consider ways in which research might make it possible to utilize that information to help somebody.”

“And likewise, if there are hundreds of thousands of fetuses that are otherwise being discarded through what is a legal process in this country, we ought to think about whether it is more ethical to throw them away, or in some rare instance to use them for research that might be life saving.”



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A Gallery Of The Faithful Gathering For Church. Album 15

The fourteenth album in our series showing our brothers and sisters in Christ gathering for church service as faithful believers. While going to church does not make one a believer, refusing to faithfully attend a local church should seriously call that faith into question. This is a glimpse of what the global church is up to, and will feature images in chronological order, week to week, of the men and women being obedient to the scriptures. As always, click to enlarge.

For previous albums Album #1, Album #2, Album #3 Album #4 Album #5 Album #6 Album #7 Album #8 Album #9 Album #10 Album #11 Album #12 Album #13 Album #14

For our multi-volume series showing the progression of the Church worldwide experiencing the lockdown and pandemic, from March 2020- July 2021, click here.

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Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Sues OSHA Over Vaccine Mandate

The flagship seminary of the SBC, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has counted itself among the first major Christian institutions to challenge the Biden administration’s federal vaccine mandate, joining forces with the Alliance Defense Fund in their efforts to stop this unconstitutional edict.

Though SBTS “strongly encourages” staff and students to get vaccinated, this is a bridge too far for the seminary, which has around 300 staff members and 3300 students. Mohler said of the mandate:

“It is unacceptable for the government to force religious institutions to become coercive extensions of state power. We have no choice but to push back against this intrusion of the government into matters of conscience and religious conviction. This institution exists for the purpose of educating ministers for churches. This seminary must not be forced to stand in for the government in investigating the private health decisions of our faculty and employees in a matter involving legitimate religious concerns.”

Not for nothing, but it was slightly more than a year ago where Mohler accused his friend Dr. John MacArthur of Grace Community Church of “malpractice” by choosing to open up five months into the pandemic and not staying shut down for an indeterminable time. In fact, he and those knuckleheads at IX Marks were all over this, tut-tutting churches that chose to defy the government and stay open, saying at the time.

I believe that in the main, Christian churches and Christian leaders should respect all temporary, neutral, and generally applicable guidelines that are handed down by appropriate government and health officials in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic….We need to demonstrate courage and commitment, and we need to pray for discernment. We need, at this point, to call out the malpractice of the United States Supreme Court and do our very utmost to avoid any malpractice of our own. 

Apparently, the government shutting down churches was not worthy of a lawsuit, but mandating conditions for occupational safety and health at the seminary is.

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Charismatic Prophetess : God Tells People Their Life Plans in Heaven Before They Come to Earth to Be Implanted in the Womb

When Kat Kerr, our favorite pink-haired charismatic meme-bot and “Dr. Michael Brown-approved prophetess” isn’t weaving an unbiblical tale of witchcraft and false theology by claiming that she has a picture of thousands of lioned-faced angels frog-marching chained demons across the sky in order to go to heaven for judgment, or that Miscarried Babies are Reincarnated For the Next Pregnancy she’s claiming that she remembers her time in heaven before she was implanted in her mother’s womb, revealing that God consults with pre-earth spirits and tells them about the life they are about to heave, before they are sent to earth to be born.

Speaking to chief-enabler Steve Shultz on Episode 49 of Wednesdays with Kat and Steve, Shultz ask her “are these children told in advance what their life would be like? Do they have to agree to it? Do they agree ahead of time knowing what their life will be like? Any of that kind of thing, what can you say?”

I can just share from my own experiences that I do remember sitting in the hand of the Father and him telling me what my life would be like on the earth or why he was sending me. I didn’t see any my family members in any of this that he showed me. I saw myself on the earth, doing things for him, and how important it would be that that I was willing, that I would be willing to do these things for him. He did not at any point say “you have to do this” or “I’m commanding you to do this.” (unintelligible) but “this is what I’ve chosen you for.” And I do know, he does tell each one of us before he sends us. I think that memory is taken from us…

She continues:

I’m just saying that, yes, he does tell you. He shows you some of what you will be doing, and how important it will be for him. And it may not even be something like discovering some sort of cure, or inventing some great system or something like that. It might simply be to be the friend of somebody who would be great in the earth. And he is sending you alongside them to grow up and impart God into them or let them know about God, or they may not have turned out the way that they did. So he does send people for many different reasons. But he has a reason to send everyone. That’s why he gets angry when the babies don’t make it.

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‘Spiritual Father’ to Clayton Jennings Busted for ‘Solicitation of Prostitution from a Minor’- We Talked About this in 2019

Several days ago, news broke that John Blanchard, lead pastor of the 4000-member Rock Church International in Virginia Beach, VA, was busted by police for trying to hook up with an underage prostitute, joining 16 other men arrested who were caught up on the sting by law enforcement. Blanchard was quickly released on bail and appeared at the church service last Sunday, blowing a shofar from the stage and offering a prayer, without addressing it.

A statement on the church website reads

“Under the guidance of our legal counsel, We cannot make a statement or comment concerning the accusations against Rev. John Blanchard at this time. We are all committed to walking in integrity and truth at Rock Church International and will continue to take steps to do so. Pastor Blanchard has voluntarily stepped back as lead pastor and from all his ministerial duties until this present situation is totally resolved. During this season, Bishop Anne Gimenez will be stepping in as Lead Pastor and sharing the pulpit with Pastor Robin Blanchard.”

Though at the time of the arrest it wasn’t widely reported, barely getting more a mention in a couple of local papers, this is not the first time that Blanchard was accused of being involved in some grossly abusive sexual shenanigans. We talked about this in 2019.

In June of 2018, when we were named Pulpit & Pen, we were contacted via email by a woman from Virginia named Jenna Sellers. Jenna was responding to the article Clayton Jennings: Capturing Weak Women – The Saga Continues, which reported that a young woman had come forward . She was the first of many who would later contact Pulpit & Pen with testimony about being seduced by Jennings, a traveling evangelist and internet celebrity. That particular article made reference to an influential friend named “John” that Jennings claimed to have. Jenna wondered if “John” might be John Blanchard, the “co-pastor” of Rock Church International where Clayton Jennings had recently preached.

Jenna is a former member and employee of Rock Church. The subject of Jenna’s email to Pulpit & Pen was “Sex abuse by Clayton Jennings’ spiritual father.” Jenna was not claiming to be yet another victim of Clayton Jennings’ seductions, but a victim of sexual and spiritual abuse by her own pastor, John Blanchard.

You can read that report here, but the gist of it is that Blanchard committed clergy sexual abuse with her, and after a time, once Sellers realized that what was happening was not ok, she reported him for sexual battery, which is a misdemeanor in Virginia.

Blanchard appeared before a Virginia judge in 2019 to answer to charges that he sexually battered her. Members of Rock Church showed up, in the church bus, to support Blanchard. The charges were dismissed by the judge, as sexual battery is a charge that is difficult to prove, especially where a consensual relationship develops after the incident. Sellers shares:

“He ended up being found not guilty, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. It did happen to me. Church leadership knew and decided not to remove him from his position…(Afterwards, members of the church)…were forbidden from speaking with me. I lost an entire support system. Every single one of my friends that I spent the last eight years with… I had to walk away from.”

It is unsurprising that this incident was swept under the rug and had no consequences for Blanchard, as Pentecostal churches, on account of their wayward theology, have developed a “touch not God’s anointed culture” around preachers who are believed to be God’s chosen instruments of prophecy. Blanchard kept his position and the whole incident was chalked up to a case of some vindictive liar trying to stop the Lord’s work by falsely accusing him of disqualifying sin.

Now, however, with this new incident, Rock Church has been forced against its will to deal with it. Despite Blanchard “stepping back” as lead pastor, given that he was previously allowed to keep his job and faced no consequences for his previous sexual sins, we would not be surprised if he is restored to ministry in just a few short months time.






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The Fruit of CRT: Microsoft Associates Introduce Themselves with Their Personal Pronouns, Race, Ethnicity, and Hair Color

Tech giant Microsoft has given the little people us a look at the rotten fruits and natural end of Critical Race Theory and the advancement of intersectionality, courtesy of the Micorosft Ignite 2021 event.

After giving an acknowledgment that the land the campus was situated on was traditionally occupied by various American-Indian groups (sammamish, muckleshoot, duwamish) Program manager kicks off by giving not only her name and title and pronouns, which is to be expected in woke organizations, but they went a step further, also giving her race, ethnicity, and even hair and eye color. She was joined by several other presenters, who did likewise.

My name is Alison Weins. I’m a senior program manager developer in our developer tools division. I’m an Asian and White female with dark brown hair wearing a red sleeveless top.

I’m Seth Juarez, program manager with the AI platform group. I’m a tall Hispanic male wearing a blue shirt and khaki pants.

I’m Natalia Godyla. I’m a Caucasian woman with long blond hair and I go by she/her

I’m Nic Fillingham. I’m a Caucasian man with glasses and a beard. I go by he/him.

I’m Vasu Jakkal. I’m a woman of Indian descent. I have brown hair, and brown eyes.

https://twitter.com/tricksyrix/status/1456279264307843072

These sort of racial introductions are likely to become more and more commonplace, stoking further divisions within a people.

We would bet it will not be long until this starts to seep into the church, and in fact will give a bounty if $100 to the first viewer to send us the clip of the woke preacher or pastor telling us their pronouns, race and hair/ eye color before they get up to give a sermon or plenary conference talk.

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Veggie Tales Creator and Co-Host Question the Point of Overturning Roe V. Wade: ‘It’s Almost Irrelevant at this Point’

Veggie Tales creator Phil Vischer, the man who swears he’s not progressive despite coming out as pro-choice, knocking creationists as a bunch of dummies, crediting his white privilege for the success of his show, arguing that liberals and Democrats are the real pro-lifers who have been reducing abortion, claiming he didn’t know there was such things black Christians until he was an adult, thumbing his nose at “Cracker Barrel Christians“, and most recently getting upset at Christians for opposing LGBTQ, has joined forces with his evangelical intelligentsia comrades and have come up with some new ‘Big Brain’ ideas about abortion, questioning whether there is even a point abolishing Roe v Wade, as it only arguably decreases abortion by 10%, and basically won’t make a difference.

From episode 149 of the Holy Post Podcast:

Phil Vischer: And I just had to point out Roe v. Wade didn’t make abortion legal, it made it illegal for states to make it illegal. Which means if Roe v Wade goes away, it is now again up to the states. And as David French points out, the majority of Americans live in the most populous states, which typically have the most progressive reproductive laws and public opinions. So the majority of Americans will still have access to abortion, even if Roe v Wade was overturned. And for other Americans, all you have to do is drive to one of those states.

Skye Jethani: And I think was just a few years ago, the abortion rate today in the United States is actually lower than it was before Roe. So strictly speaking, we have already managed to reverse the impact of Roe on the actual abortion rate without getting rid of Roe. So what’s so big… (about reversing it?)

Kristin Kobes Du Mez: This is a dog whistle, this is a dog whistle. (Editor’s note. Only progressives use the term, ‘dog whistle’) And I think Republicans campaigning do understand that all they need to do is keep throwing that out there and people will buy it and believe it.

Skye Jethani: To be fair though it’s not just Republicans. I mean Democrats run on protecting Roe as a rallying call for their voters. So both sides use this Roe issue as the kind of catnip that gets their bases upset and motivated. Whereas you know, in the actual number of abortions happening, Roe is almost irrelevant at this point.

Phil Vischer: Yeah, David French quotes one study that estimated if Roe was overturned abortion, the amount of abortions might decrease in America by about 10%. 10 to 12%. Because of lack of access from conservative states and people that can’t make the drive to a more liberal state, so everything we’ve been fighting for in terms of presidents and justices may ultimately have the ability to only do 10% of the impact that we want.

Previously, Vischer and Jethani have argued that liberals are the real pro-lifers who have been reducing abortion, not the conservatives, and that if people actually care about bringing down the abortion rate they would have supported the Biden-Harris ticket and vote for the Democrats, not the Republicans.

As we pointed out a few days ago, despite his 10% claim, abortions fell by half in Texas after a bill was introduced to make abortion after a heartbeat can be detected legal. This is also notwithstanding that even if it were “only 10% of babies” that is still an enormous number of children being murdered in the womb. Roe v. Wade doesn’t serve merely a utilitarian purpose, but overturning it also makes a statement itself.

For this crowd though, it would really only be a ho-hum affair.

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Abolition in the SBC: Utah/ Idaho Baptist Convention Calls Governors, Legislature to Abolish Abortion

(Free the States) Abolitionist momentum within the SBC continued on Friday as the Utah-Idaho Southern Baptist Convention passed the Resolution on Abolishing Abortion at their annual convention. The resolution had 79 cosigners and was based on the resolution passed at the national annual meeting, with some edits made by Idaho pastor Paul Thompson with the help of Free the States.

While abolitionist resolutions in other states have produced fierce debates on the floors of conventions between abolitionists and pro-lifers, the Utah-Idaho resolution sailed through without any substantial edits from the Resolutions Committee nor opposition from a single messenger. Resolutions Committee Chair Jason DeFoor presented Thompson’s resolution to the messengers without any substantive amendments, no one spoke against the resolution, and according to Thompson, the vote in favor was unanimous.

As passed, the resolution reads:

  1. Whereas, the word of God, the Holy Bible, is a lamp to our feet (Psalm 119:105), its words are sweeter than honey to our mouth (Psalm 119:103), the law of God is perfect, the testimony of the Lord is sure, the fear of the Lord is clean, the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous (Psalm 19:7-9), and that this Holy Scripture, as given by inspiration of God, is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness (2 Timothy 3:14-17), and
  2. Whereas, from the moment of fertilization, all humans are created in God’s image by, through, and for Jesus to the glory of God, and all souls belong to Him (Genesis 1:27; 4:1; 21;2 Isaiah 7:14; Colossians 1:16; Romans 11:36; Ezekiel 18:4), and
  3. Whereas, all humans display His divine worth, power, and attributes – they possess equal and objective worth before God regardless of means of conception, ethnicity, age, size, mental development, physical development, gender, or contribution to society (Romans 1:19-20; Genesis 1:27; 9:6, Matthew 18:6), and
  4. Whereas, God, who is above all rule and authority, establishes all governing authorities as His avenging servants to punish the evildoer and commands these authorities to judge justly (Colossians 2:15; Psalm 82; Proverbs 20:10; Romans 13:4) and,
  5. Whereas, over the past forty-eight years, there have been more than sixty million reported inhumane acts of induced abortions (actions to intentionally stop an otherwise natural birth) of fellow image-of-God-bearing humans, and
  6. Whereas, the Baptist Faith and Message, according to Article XV, affirms that children “from the moment of conception, are a blessing and heritage from the Lord”; and further affirms that Southern Baptists are mandated by Scripture to “speak on behalf of the unborn and contend for the sanctity of all human life from conception to natural death,”
  7. Whereas, the messengers of the 2021 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting affirmed and declared, the Southern Baptist Resolution on Abolishing Abortion, that abortion must be immediately abolished and preborn children must be afforded the equal protection of the law in accordance with God’s Word and the U.S. Constitution, Now, let it be
  8. Resolved, that we, the messengers of the Utah/Idaho Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Meridian, Idaho October 29, 2021, agree with God that no human institution, government, rule, or authority has permission from God to allow the intentional shedding of innocent blood and we reject any position that allows for any exceptions to the Holy and Righteous standard of Justice (Psalm 94:6, Isaiah 10:1-2; Proverbs 24:11; Psalm 82:1-4), and be it further
  9. Resolved, that we affirm that the murder of preborn children is a crime against humanity that must be punished equally under the law, and be it further
  10. Resolved, that as Southern Baptists we will engage, with God’s help, in establishing equal justice and protection for preborn children by calling upon Utah Governor Spencer Cox, Utah House Speaker Brad Wilson and the rest of the Utah State House, and Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams and the rest of the Utah Senate to pass, sign, and enforce legislation that would fully, finally, and immediately abolish the heinous act of abortion in Utah immediately without exception or compromise, and be it further
  11. Resolved, that as Southern Baptists we will engage, with God’s help, in establishing equal justice and protection for preborn children by calling upon Idaho Governor Brad Little, Idaho House Speaker Scott Bedke, the rest of the Idaho House, Idaho Senate President Pro Tempore Chuck Winder, and the rest of the Idaho Senate to pass, sign, and enforce legislation that would fully, finally, and immediately abolish the heinous act of abortion in Idaho immediately without exception or compromise, and be it further
  12. Resolved, that as Southern Baptists we will engage, with God’s help, in establishing equal justice and protection for preborn children by calling upon President Joe Biden, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the U.S. House of Representatives, and U.S. Senate President Pro Tempore Charles Schumer and the rest of the U.S. Senate to pass, sign, and enforce legislation that would fully, and finally, and immediately abolish the heinous act of abortion in the United States immediately without exception or compromise, and be it further
  13. Resolved that we encourage pastors and churches to use their God-ordained gifts of preaching, teaching, and leading our communities to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to love our neighbor — yes, even our pre-born neighbor — as if he/she were our own life, and be it finally
  14. Resolved, that we stand ready to rescue those being led to the slaughter motivated by our love for God by means that are pleasing to Him, so help us God (Proverbs 24:11).

The distinctive feature of this resolution is its call for specific public officials in each state and the federal government to work to abolish abortion. This is particularly applicable in Idaho where State Representative Heather Scott has filed an abolition bill each of the past three sessions. Governor Brad Little, House Speaker Scott Bedke, and Senate President Chuck Winder have not lifted a finger to support it thus far.

Scott Herndon is the director of Abolish Abortion Idaho and the lobbyist who wrote the Idaho abolition bill. He is now running for State Senate and explains:

“As the author of the bill that would abolish abortion in Idaho and treat it properly as the crime of homicide, I am pleased at the progress the resolution of the Southern Baptists for Utah and Idaho represents.”

Herndon noted that only five years ago, no one in Idaho politics had ever considered abolishing abortion immediately in defiance of Roe. He also tracked the progress of the movement in Idaho from an abolitionist ballot initiative in 2016, to the first abolition bill in 2019, to the making the Republican platform abolitionist in 2020, to the SBC victory in 2021.

“Now a group that represents 170 churches in Idaho and Utah are specifically calling on Governor Little and the Idaho legislature to act. To establish equal justice and end the murder in Idaho, it is my prayer that House Speaker Scott Bedke and Senate leader Chuck Winder would heed the Southern Baptists’ call and act now. 29 children a week die while we tarry, and 48 years of traditional pro-life legislative efforts that capitulate to unconstitutional court tyranny have only resulted in NO abortions banned and tens of thousands of dead Idaho babies.”

Editor’s Note. The following post was written by James Silberman and originally published at Free the States, the organization creating and drafting abolitionist bills across the US, and who were instrumental in crafting and supporting the recent ‘Abolition of Abortion’ resolution that the SBC adopted this summer. Reprinted in full with permission. If anyone would like to support the work they do, they can do so below.

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