Southern Baptist Convention: How did Saddleback get kicked out of the SBC? It’s complicated
The five congregations ousted last week were the first to be expelled from the Southern Baptist Convention on a national level for having women pastors since the ban on women pastors was instituted in 2000. BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports…
In the US, Adam Greenway resigns as Southwestern Seminary president
United StatesRNS The president of one of the Southern Baptist Convention’s largest seminaries resigned last Friday, less than four years after taking office. Adam Greenway was elected president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2019, in hopes that he would help the school recover from the controversial tenure of former President Paige Patterson, who was […]
SBC seminary president: Recent race statement not about ‘preserving whiteness’
RNS The president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has expressed “lament” for “unintentionally” hurting African American members of his denomination with a recent joint statement on racism by all six Southern Baptist seminary presidents. But Adam Greenway defended the Council of Seminary Presidents’ determination about critical race theory and intersectionality, which address systemic racism and […]