In this audio, Rosaria Butterfield rebukes Southern Baptist Theological Seminary for approving the dissertation of Nate Collins, which argued that “virgin” is a third gender in the scriptures.
Collins is the founder and president of the widely-condemned-by-conservatives Revoice Conference that once led sessions like “Queer theory and the treasures of queer culture and queer literature” and “What queer treasure, honor, and glory will be brought into the New Jerusalem at the end of time?” Revoice has repeatedly invited a Roman Catholic Lesbian who Praised an X-Rated Gay BDSM Film as a keynote speaker.
Collins describes himself as a “gay man in a mixed-orientation marriage,” condemned Christians for calling child groomers ‘perverts’, made grotesquely unbiblical statements in Christianity Today, and called his denomination (the PCA) ‘rampantly homophobic ‘for decrying gay clergy. We wrote about him most recently after he insisted that Christians who signed the Nashville Statement on Sexual Ethics needed to repent of doing so.
Jared Moore, explaining on X, writes:
“In answering the question how Critical Theory ended up in the church, Butterfield astutuely observes, “Bad ideas don’t run a culture amok until the church starts applauding them.” And by @SBTS approving Nate Collins’ dissertation, they gave approval of him baptizing Critical Theory and Queer Theory for use in the local church.
Butterfield was an outside reader for Collins’ dissertation at SBTS. She shares what she thought when she first read it: “This is one of the most God-forsaken things I’ve read as a Christian, ever. What are you all thinking? He mishandles the Bible and Critical Theory and Queer Theory, all at the same time, which is an amazing achievement. And I remember writing a letter to that professor at Southern that was the equivalent of ‘Please take me off your distribution list.’”
And yet, it passed.”
