The Supreme Court declined to hear McRaney v. North American Mission Board, leaving the Fifth Circuit’s ruling intact. The result – despite the claims by the North American Mission Board (NAMB) – may signal the death of the Southern Baptist Convention’s primary funding mechanism – the Cooperative Program – with
For nearly a decade, many Southern Baptists have seen McRaney v. NAMB as a narrow legal dispute between one former state convention executive and a national SBC entity. It is not.
A manufactured scandal. A perfect measuring stick.
Here we go again. Once more, we are watching the same pattern repeat itself in anti-Christian Nationalist evangelical discourse. This pattern has now emerged so predictably that it deserves to be named for what it is: crying wolf. The pattern starts with the movement (Christian Nationalism) being tagged as dangerous.
Doug Wilson’s “No Quarter November” is giving no quarter to reformed teaching on the Lord’s Supper. In “The Challenge of Child Communion,” he argues that baptized toddlers (and possibly infants?) should receive communion. His central line is simple enough: “If the baptized child is genuinely part of the loaf, then
In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, evangelical beneficiaries of the late Tim Keller’s winsome approach to Christian societal engagement have put out an all-hands-on-deck call to protect the intellectual and spiritual fiefdom known as third-wayism from being torn down by Kirk-inspired pew-sitters. Fresh off of watching a brother martyred
Protestia has been covering J.D. Greear for almost a decade. Long before The Gospel Coalition began regularly publishing his essays and platforming his brand of “above-the-fray” Christianity, we were documenting the pattern that now defines his ministry. Back when this site operated under the Pulpit & Pen banner, Greear’s knack
The Daniel Keene case shows how extra-biblical “charges,” opaque processes, and elder overreach corrode Baptist polity. Historic Baptist church discipline is meant to protect the purity of the church and restore sinners through clear, biblical charges and a congregational process (Matt. 18:15–17; 1 Cor. 5). What happened to Texas business
When JD Greear tells pastors to “stay above the fray,” he’s not calling them to holiness. He’s calling them to silence. In his essay, Faithfulness amid the Culture War, published at the hive of scum and villainy known as The Gospel Coalition, Greear argues that pastors occupy a different plane
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Dr. Voddie Tharon Baucham, Jr., who entered the presence of his Savior on September 25, 2025, at the age of 56. Founders Ministries shared: “We are saddened to inform friends that our dear brother, Voddie Baucham, Jr., has left
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