ISN'T THE AMERICAN BAPTIST CONVENTION AN OPTION?

Mark Tapscott seems worried.  "Something is very rotten in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), which represents America’s largest Protestant denomination, and it is only a matter of time before it goes the sad way of the mainline Methodists and Presbyterians."  Some of what follows is a flap about borrowing sermon texts without attribution.  Mr Tapscott fears, though, that the convention is going to let false dogma into the congregations.  "Most of the 14 million Southern Baptists in the denomination’s churches will not sit and be propagandized with [critical race theory] or any other false gospel much longer. Keep it up and the SBC will soon be just another dying Protestant has-been."

It might be simpler for the congregations that want to do the World Council of Churches thing to change their affiliation from the Southern to the American, which has long been the WASPy part of the Baptist tradition, complete with lessons to be inclusive in the contemporary way.