The Southern Baptist Convention’s 2025 annual conference kicked off with a bang earlier today, as the first two motions introduced sought to abolish the ERLC and pass the Law Amendment, the latter whch is a proposed change to the Constitution of the Southern Baptist Convention that would mandate that churches
On this episode of Protestia Tonight for July 23, 2024, we discuss the debacle of the ERLC “firing” Brent Leatherwood, only to end up retracting the next day. In the PT VIP (which requires patreon membership to join) 🙂 we discuss the responsibility of Christians to fulfill their civil magistrate
In a stunning and unexpected turn of events, Brent Leatherwood is back at the helm of the ERLC, with the man who orchestrated his ousting resigning. Whereas a press release yesterday revealed: “In accordance with our bylaws, the executive committee has removed Brent Leatherwood as president. Further details, as well
Update! Leatherwood is back at the helm. After less than two years on the job, the executive committee of the board of trustees for the SBC’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission has announced that their terrible president, Brent Leatherwood, has been canned from the position, with a statement reading: “In
A motion to abolish the ERLC at the 2024 Southern Baptist Convention has failed. During the convention, Tom Ascol, President of Founders Ministries and senior pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Cape Coral, FL, brought forth the motion arguing that the truly awful, useless and reprehensible ERLC, formerly led by
(Evangelical Dark Web) The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention serves as a political lobbying arm of the SBC’s Cooperative Program. In theory, it is supposed to represent Southern Baptists’ political interests. In practice, it has capitulated on most issues of substance. It famously opposed pro-life legislation in
(Evangelical Dark Web) Richard Land’s legacy in the church is one of compromise with the world, going back decades. The former head of the ERLC wrote an op ed in which he recalled advising a family to commit murder via abortion after the couple received questionable medical advice. Theoretically, the ERLC
Gay Anglican priest Sam Allberry, known for partnering up with the Gospel Coalition and the ERLC to be one of the architects for the acceptance of Same-Sex Attraction (SSA) “Christianity, has revealed that he wears a wedding ring on his ring finger, despite being single, as a reminder that God is “pursuing
Following criticism from conservatives in the Southern Baptist Convention for the permanent appointment of Brent Leatherwood as the head of the ERLC by the SBC institutionalist establishment, SBC President Bart Barber, hell-bent on spreading disunity and misrepresenting the pastors he’s supposed to be leading, took to Twitter with some spicy
n a troubling sign that the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission will continue unabated in its role as the smug and smarmy bastion of SBC elites, the organization’s board of trustees has unanimously elected Brent leatherwood to fill the role as the next President of the ERLC,
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