Christa Brown’s Ms. Magazine Article: Southern Baptists on a Mission of Misogyny
Read on and get a free audiobook of Brown's Baptistland
Friends,
Lake Drive Books author Christa Brown recently published a Ms. Magazine article “Southern Baptists Pursue a Mission of Misogyny”.
On the eve of the next annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention starting this Sunday in Indianapolis, Brown calls out the SBC for their institutionalized misogyny, which is in no small part connected to their mishandling and dismissiveness of the clergy sex abuse in their ranks and the polarizing political figures behind so much upheaval in our country today.
Here are a few quotes from the more than spot-on article, which we encourage you to read in its entirety:
“Beginning this Sunday, thousands of Southern Baptist Convention delegates will assemble in Indianapolis, and one of the most misogynistic gatherings in all of Christendom will be on display.”
“No one should ever forget that the Southern Baptist Convention has its very origins in a theology that sanctified the enslavement of human beings, consecrated the Confederacy, and birthed a bloody civil war.”
“When you combine the SBC’s misogynistic, authoritarian theology, which relegates females to second-class status, with an institutional structure lacking in effective accountability systems, you wind up with an institution in which abuse can run rampant.”
“As troubling as Southern Baptist beliefs and practices are, the faith group is too big and too mainstream to be dismissed as fringe. Their extremism hides in plain sight.”
Also, just for you Lake Drive newsletter subscribers, we have codes for a free Audible audiobook edition of Christa Brown’s Baptistland if you’d like one. We’ll limit it to three, first come, first serve. Just respond to this email.
Thank you,
David Morris, Publisher
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