The Southern Baptist Convention s ominous cracks
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Beth Moore has left the Southern Baptist Convention. I am still a Baptist, the prolific Bible study author said in an interview with
Religion News Service published Tuesday, but I can no longer identify with Southern Baptists.
The import of this departure, as manyhaveobserved, is difficult to explain if you don t already know who Moore is. She s something like the book club leader version of Reese Witherspoon for conservative evangelical Christians, except she also writes the books and teaches classes and draws giant women s conference crowds, and she s worked through decades of dismissal and ridicule by male coreligionists.