New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: Michels’ Iron Law of Oligarchy and the SBC
Reading Time: 12 minutesAre we circling back to the time of the Conservative Resurgence? While the 1970s saw the oligarchy of liberal elites, the 2010s and 2020s have so far seen an oligarchy of Cultural Engagers.
What is the Cause of Our Divisions? Social Media and Other Strategies For Effecting Positive Change in the SBC
Reading Time: 9 minutesAre there two SBCs? Some divide the SBC into the SBC of social media and “the real SBC,” yet this is far from the truth. There is one SBC, but it lacks an adequate and fair hearing for all it has to say.
One Sacred Effeminacy: The Cooperative Longhouse And the Great Feminization of the SBC
Reading Time: 20 minutesSoft hearts and sharp minds will not avail us if we lack strong spines with the courage to teach what the Bible says about female pastors.
Cooperation Catechism: Why be a Southern Baptist? 7 Questions & Answers That Succinctly State the Fundamentals of Our Cooperative Identity
Reading Time: 8 minutesWhy do Southern Baptist churches cooperate? Here are seven questions and answers that show the value of association among Baptist churches.
What’s Trusty About SBC Trustees: Does Trustee Training Fix Ailing Entities or Institutionalize Passivity?
Reading Time: 14 minutesWhat is the point of having trustees if they are officially discouraged from doing their actual job of oversight?
Why Baptists Must Recover the Order of Love
Reading Time: 9 minutesThe church is tasked with taking Christ’s love to the ends of the earth. But if we don’t love our own neighbor, church, and country first how can we possibly do that?
Morphology of Modernism
Reading Time: 10 minutesOnce the foundation of inerrancy is removed, Christian denominations, like the Southern Baptist Convention, will be crushed by the downward spiral of modernism. Denominational sustainability thus demands uncompromised confidence.
Whoever Holds the Purse, Holds the Strings: The Financial Plan that Could End the SBC
Reading Time: 9 minutesAs of 2025, if liberal groups try to steer the SBC in a more progressive direction by giving strings-attached money to SBC entities, you would never know it. Something needs to change.
More Money Than Men: The NAMB Church Planting Problem
Reading Time: 13 minutesThis is what happens when you have pressure to spend money to plant churches but not enough qualified men to plant them.
Five Reasons to Be Thankful for the Southern Baptist Convention
Reading Time: 5 minutesThere’s a lot to love about the Southern Baptist Convention. Here’s what I’m most thankful for.
Our Glorious God
Reading Time: 5 minutesWe are made to glorify our glorious God. But just what is God’s glory?
Speaking of God . . .
Reading Time: 9 minutesEverything we know about God is in limited human words. But how can our finite words describe the infinite God?
