“This church really is historically tied to the Southern Baptist Convention, but lately it’s only been tied by the slenderest of threads,” the Rev. Julie Pennington-Russell of First Baptist Church Decatur, Ga., told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
It was her first Sunday in the pulpit following the Georgia Baptist Convention's approval of a policy allowing it to refuse donations from churches which do not adhere to Southern Baptist Convention's statement of faith.
At the outset, her appointment as pastor in Decatur attracted comment from Al Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, who defended the SBC position that only men may pastor churches.
Southern Baptist Convention leadership (dominated by men) may be divided from the women in Baptist pews and homes, suggests Susan Shaw, director of women’s studies at Oregon State University, in her book God Speaks to Us, Too: Southern Baptist Women on Church, Home & Society.
Breaking the threads connecting it to women in the pew would be the ultimate SBC divorce, would it not?
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