Southern Baptist Seminary Presidents Announce 180 on Critical Race Theory | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
In a stunning reversal on November 30, presidents of the six Southern Baptist seminaries issued a joint statement that said, “we … declare that affirmation of Critical Race Theory (CRT), Intersectionality, and any version of Critical Theory (CT) is incompatible with [our confessional standards].” Just a year and half earlier, at their 2019 annual convention, Southern Baptists passed Resolution 9, affirming CRT and intersectionality. Had Southern Baptist leaders been unaware that CRT is a subset of CT, which itself is the main ideological underpinning of neo-Marxist revolutionary movements?
A clue that at least one Southern Baptist was preparing to bolt from the CRT train came on September 2 when atheist James Lindsay sat for an interview with Southern Seminary president Albert Mohler. Lindsay is a renowned expert on and opponent of CT who has publicly praised Donald Trump for his anti-CRT executive order that tracks remarkably close to Lindsay’s own published attacks on CRT. Mohler and other evangelical elites have meandered for four years between full-on Never Trumpism to agonized and tepid support for the president. What lies behind Mohler’s decision to choose a pro-Trump atheist to signal his impending break with the CRT social justice movement?
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For fundamentalists I think the article’s discussion about why have James Lindsay speak vs. Voddie Baucham is a good one. When I first listened to Mohler’s Thinking in Public interview with James Lindsay, I was surprised when I got to the end of the interview in question and found James Lindsay was an atheist. But, having listened to other interviews on that program called Thinking in Public, is not surprising that Mohler would interview a character such as James Lindsay on that program. He has interviewed many other such non-conservative thinkers about issues on that program, including Atheists. Plenty of evangelicals do that kind of thing, but other evangelicals question it as well (Norman Geisler does so in a review of the Five Views on Inerrancy which Mohler coincidentally contributed to https://normangeisler.com/a-review-of-five-views-on-biblical-inerr c nancy-eds-j-merrick-and-stephen-garrett/). Is a podcast virtual platform fellowship the way of other settings? Maybe, maybe not. I’m not certain. It does make me pause and wonder.