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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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More Wack Analogies and Scripture-less Arguments From Scott Klusendorf
Scott Klusendorf has published another article defending pro-life incrementalism and criticizing abolitionism, this time at The Gospel Coalition (TGC). Let’s get right into it. 1) Rhetorical Demonizing In a previous article on the Southern Baptist Resolution on Abolishing Abortion, Klusendorf wrote that abolitionists will “wield it like a cudgel” against pro-life compromise. In the TGC…
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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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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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Abolitionists Pass Resolution*, Make Huge Strides at SBC Convention
Following an amendment of a single word, the Southern Baptist Convention voted to pass the Southern Baptist Resolution to Abolish Abortion. After being motioned out of committee by Pastor Bill Ascol on Tuesday, the resolution came to a vote before the convention members on Wednesday, with opportunity for abolitionists and anti-abolitionists to give testimony. One…
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Southern Baptist Convention Moves One Step Closer to Abolitionism (And Answering Objections)
History was made on Tuesday as messengers of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) voted overwhelmingly in favor of ordering the SBC Resolutions Committee to present the Resolution on Abolishing Abortion before the full convention. Southern Baptists can file resolutions, but it is ordinarily the prerogative of the Committee to decide which resolutions are voted on…
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