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The debate over women pastors is a Southern Baptist smoke screen
The fiery arguments distract from constructive conversations about entrenched racism, Christian nationalism and sexual abuse. Messengers vote on motions during the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex on June 11, 2019, in Birmingham, Alabama. RNS photo by Butch Dill
May 14, 2021
(RNS) Over the past two weeks, Christian leaders and commentators have been setting news outlets and social media ablaze with arguments over women’s ordination, women as pastors and women’s callings. It’s a long-running, on-again, off-again debate in Southern Baptist and other evangelical circles. The arguments rarely change, largely because the point of the blaze is not the light it gives, but the heat and, most of all, the smoke.