A devout Southern Baptist, Stanley founded In Touch Ministries in 1977 and struck a syndication deal with the Christian Broadcasting Network in 1978.

Source: https://www.samfordcrimson.com/key-christian-leaders-who-died-in-2023-2023-12-23.html

A graduate of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, she became the church’s youth and music minister in 1983, interim pastor in 1990 and pastor in 1993.

Source: https://krdo.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/06/11/in-a-last-ditch-effort-longtime-southern-baptist-churches-expelled-for-women-pastors-fight-to-stay/

Albert Mohler — longtime president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary also in Louisville, and one of the denomination’s most prominent leaders — said he hopes “the Republican Party nominee will be someone not named Donald Trump.”

Source: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-news/2023/06/for-many-southern-baptists-the-only-campaign-question-is-which-republican-candidate-to-support/

And I think the people at the very top of the Southern Baptist Convention knew that it was very chancy to take on Disney.

Source: https://slate.com/culture/2023/04/disney-ron-desantis-lawsuit-florida-boycott-history.html?via=rss

And, of course, I’m only making the comparison here because many conservatives — including religious leaders in the Catholic Church and the Southern Baptist Convention — falsely equate drag shows or LGBTQ people with sexual perversion.

Source: https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/illinois-catholic-church-child-abuse-rcna86289

In February, the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee voted to oust the two congregations, along with three others that chose not to appeal, for having women pastors.

Source: https://www.centralmaine.com/2023/06/14/southern-baptists-refuse-to-take-back-megachurch-because-it-has-female-pastors/

In our experience, Asians don’t tend to do storefronts, though we did come across Chin Southern Baptist Church (Burmese and Chin) on Hawley Street on the West Side (the Chin are a mountain people by tradition, 80% Christian).

Source: https://www.buffalorising.com/2023/12/how-to-take-a-walk-in-buffalo-and-beyond-store-front-and-in-house-churches/

These aren’t Missouri Southern Baptist hippies, so there’s also bound to be a few things we’d never find in one of our churches, including faith healings.

Source: https://mbcpathway.com/2023/03/02/jesus-revolution-winningly-shows-unlikely-revival/

The Southern Baptist Convention is theologically and politically conservative, and it has undergone a similar roiling over its values and identity since the election of Donald Trump as the Republican Party has in recent years.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/us/politics/michael-johnson-house-speaker-evangelicalism.html

“We feel like the average Southern Baptist would have no problem with this,” she said.

Source: https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/us/saddleback-church-doubles-down-on-support-for-female-pastors/article_fdcdcad7-b875-593b-a25e-f4698639c609.html