SBTS President Albert Mohler got a little testy over the weekend, complaining that Canon Press, the publishing arm of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, has released some of his older material without his permission and blessing. His intent; distance himself from Wilson and the Church as much as possible.
Evidently a media platform has announced the release of some of my material. No communication with me or my staff. No permission from me. Material is taken from my addresses to Evangelical Theological Society. Take an aspirin, I’m not moving to Russia. Now or ever. #NYET
The books in question?
After this release was announced, some folk tweeted out their displeasure at Wilson platforming Mohler, bringing up Mohler’s flirtations with Critical Race Theory and his overall spiritual sponginess.
With a miffed Mohler’s grumbling about the betrayal, his sourness was quickly taken advantage of by the rowdy boys at Canon Press, grabbing his rebuke and running with it by offering a promo code in honor of Al’s lack of endorsement:
Plus a (well-deserved) potshot for good measure:
Responding to the brouhaha, Wilson weighed in, offering that the work Mohler produced prior to his new reality is useful and worthy of being shared, and that there was nothing untoward about the way they received and published his work.
A day or two ago, Canon+ added some of Al Mohler’s content from a number of years ago, from back before the woke virus days. A firestorm of sorts broke out on Twitter, with one gentleman commenting on how much the times have changed. Al Mohler and Douglas Wilson doing something together, and Wilson is the one who got into trouble. This was taken by some as a sign that Canon was going woke, or something like that, which is not the case at all. Al’s stuff back then was really good, and we stand behind it. Unlike Al, apparently.
But others in the comment thread following Al’s tweet were questioning whether or not it was an ethics issue. I can assure everyone that it is not an ethics issue. Everything published on the Canon+ app was acquired on the up-and-up, fair-and-square, and all-legal-like. Whoever was advising Al to put some distance between himself and Canon was a bit hasty, and ought to have done some spade work before telling Al to pull his skirts away.
