A month after pleading guilty to one charge of making false statements to the FBI, former professor and interim provost at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS), Matthew Queen, has resigned from the pastorate of Friendly Avenue Baptist Church in Greensboro, North Carolina. Earlier this year, the Department of Justice indicted
If you’re reporting on (or learning about) Johnny Hunt’s lawsuit against the SBC Executive Board, you need to do your research and understand this corruption goes back much further than you might think. It might seem offensive that megachurch millionaire ex-pastor Johnny Hunt went through a secret ‘restoration’ process that
Pastor Steve Gaines of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, has announced that he’s stepping down from the senior pastor position at his SBC megachurch and will begin the transition to new leadership, nearly a year after being diagnosed with kidney cancer. Gaines, a former Southern Baptist Convention President we
The job of a pastor is to speak articulately and clearly. Yet for the Sold-Out Shepherds highlighted in Megan Basham’s best-selling book, Shepherds for Sale, their defense seems to be a brash admission of their inarticulate past. Combined with self-victimizing, these pastors appear angry as hornets that Basham had the
The online pushback and downright vitriol directed towards Daily Wire writer and reporter Megan Basham in advance of her book Shepherds for Sale demonstrate one very important reality: There is an entire industry (dare we say “mindustry?”) invested in suppressing the information in her book. It is one thing for
Join us at 6:30 pm MT for a live discussion of Megan Basham’s book Shepherds for Sale, a thorough and essential chronicling of the leftist infiltration into evangelicalism and the wolves responsible.
Jesus uses the pen of John in Revelation 3:14-22 to rebuke the lukewarm Laodiceans, who had all the signs of church “success” but, upon spiritual examination, were “wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.” Similarly, the signs of unwieldy, biblically adrift secularism and pragmatism are all over today’s Southern Baptist Convention
Another year, another SBC Annual Meeting. Technically, the “Convention” only exists for a Tuesday and Wednesday every year as thousands of messengers descend on a metropolitan convention center to discuss and debate business. While readers and supporters of Protestia are wisely suspicious of the kind of institutionalism that characterizes the
In yet another rebuke to the so-called #SBCToo movement, the United States Department of Justice has reportedly closed a 2022 probe into Southern Baptist Convention leaders’ criminal responsibility for mishandling abuse allegations. The investigation resulted in no charges. As reported by the Tennessean, the DOJ opened up the investigation in
In a press conference at what appeared to be the press room for the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), president Brent Leatherwood made an impassioned plea for continued censorship of remaining evidence collected from deceased Covenant School shooter Aubrey Hale, stating, “Parents and families came together
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