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Barber/ERLC Swing and Miss (Again) at Abolitionism
Few things in the evangelical landscape of the west have caused a more polarizing response than that of the abortion crisis. More specifically, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, has been torn over the issue for the better part of its existence. Whether through weekly sermon applications, daily evangelism, or annual resolutions,…
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SBC President Bart Barber Gives a Lesson in How Not to Repent
On September 15, Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) President Bart Barber unleashed a vicious, dishonest Twitter attack against SBC pastor Dusty Deevers. (Watch Deevers’ response to the various attacks here.) One day later, Barber Tweeted an equally dishonest thread against the Abolitionist Movement in general. On Friday, Barber “repented” on Twitter. Unfortunately, the “repentance” was nearly…
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Tom Ascol Nominated For Southern Baptist Convention President
Tom Ascol, Pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Cape Coral, FL and president of Founders Ministries, was nominated for President of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) on Tuesday by a group of Southern Baptist pastors and members including SBC First Vice President Lee Brand. Ascol and Founders have become a force within the SBC, primarily…
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South Carolina Baptist Convention Passes Resolution Calling For Abolition
Following in the footsteps of the national Southern Baptist Convention, Arkansas Baptists, and Utah-Idaho Baptists, the South Carolina Baptist Convention passed a resolution calling for the total and immediate abolition of abortion on Tuesday. The resolution, as presented by abolitionist pastors, was virtually identical to the resolution passed by the Southern Baptist Convention in June,…
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Utah/Idaho Baptist Convention Calls UT-ID Governors, Legislature to Abolish Abortion
Abolitionist momentum within the SBC continued on Friday as the Utah-Idaho Southern Baptist Convention passed the Resolution on Abolishing Abortion at their annual convention. The resolution had 79 cosigners and was based on the resolution passed at the national annual meeting, with some edits made by Idaho pastor Paul Thompson with the help of Free…
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Moving Beyond Regulationism: A Response to David Norman
During the floor debate at the 2021 Southern Baptist Convention, Dr. David Norman made a motion to indefinitely postpone the Resolution on Abolishing Abortion — effectively killing it. Here, we will examine Norman’s stated reasons for his motion and the assumptions and errors he makes. Reason #1: Abolition Repudiates Previous Pro-life SBC Resolutions Norman opened…
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The Rise and Progress of Abortion Abolitionism in the Southern Baptist Convention
Three weeks ago, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) adopted a mold-breaking resolution calling for the “immediate abolition of abortion without exception or compromise,” and further, for the convention to “lament any complicity” in pro-life incrementalism which “compromises God’s holy standard of justice” by establishing “incremental, regulatory guidelines for when, where, why, and how to obtain…
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Against Pro-Life Compromise: Responding to Denny Burk, Andrew Walker, et al.
The passage of the Southern Baptist Resolution on Abolishing Abortion at the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) Annual Meeting two weeks ago has sparked a slew of articles from pro-life SBC leaders opposing it. This article is the third installment in a series of articles here on the FTS blog responding to the anti-abolitionist pieces of…
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Responding to Klusendorf and Newman: Trading a Prophetic Voice for Cowardly Compromise
On Wednesday, Scott Klusendorf and Marc Newman published an article for Townhall defending pro-life incrementalism in response to the recently passed Southern Baptist Resolution on Abolishing Abortion. The resolution was a thoroughly biblical, decidedly abolitionist document that called for the “immediate abolition of abortion without exception or compromise.” Sounds great, right? Not to Klusendorf and…
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Refuting Dana Hall McCain’s Nonsensical Anti-Abolitionist Slander
Dana Hall McCain, a member of the 2021 Southern Baptist Convention Resolutions Committee, wrote an article opposing the Southern Baptist Resolution on Abolishing Abortion, which was passed by the convention last week. She makes six main arguments, none of which amount to a formidable refutation of abolitionism or the resolution. As will be demonstrated, her…
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