11 thoughts on “The Southern Baptist Convention, Far Past The Age Of Accountability

  1. “Whatever it takes” doesn’t mean anything concrete. An organization has to figure out the best means for addressing a problem. The specifics matter. I don’t know the specifics being debated, but as a Catholic I can assure you that some of the more obvious steps will turn out to be fruitless, and some of the best policies haven’t even been mentioned yet.Report

    1. Yeah, prepare for all the current rifts/debates to be cast and re-cast as ‘the reason’ we’re at this point or ‘the thing’ we need to get past this point.

      The one useful takeaway that hit me over time was that none of the factions were blameless, and there was no point in going to the wall for a malefactor who happened to be on your team. Since the issues are largely non-doctrinal, there’s freedom in pursuing procedures that will land on bad actors regardless of faction.

      But, as Pinky said, it’s not simply obvious which are the best procedures and which aren’t a type of ‘grift’ appropriating the language of procedures – either for ‘change’ or ‘status-quo’ or the worst: status quo masquerading as change.Report

        1. No? Are you?

          My point about grift (perhaps a word past it’s sell-by date) is that I personally was surprised by the speed at which mini-careers and mini-industries were created around fixing/solving that weren’t as interested in fixing/solving as they were in perpetuating/extending.Report

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