Recent events also demonstrate that the most energy inside White evangelical circles is actually being spent doubling down to prevent efforts to deal honestly with the history of racism and bigotry. Following months of protests for racial justice across the summer of 2020, the White male presidents of all six Southern Baptist seminaries came together to issue an unprecedented joint statement. While it paid lip service to condemning "racism in any form," its main thrust — and clear purpose — was the defensive condemnation of "any version of Critical Theory" as incompatible with the denomination's confession of faith…
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