Russ Moore, Senior Vice President for Academic Administration at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has posted an interesting article on Southern Baptist attitudes, particularly as they apply to sexual ethics. Here is an excerpt.
The central point of the article is that Southern Baptists accomodate ourselves quite easily to the ambient culture’s redefinitions of the family, just twenty or thirty years behind everybody else. We rail against a decadent culture, but only those aspects of the culture that we haven’t yet adopted. Just look at the difference between the way we speak of gender reassignment surgery versus the way we speak of divorce. Could it be that the difference between the two modes of discourse is because we have fewer transgendered deacons and Sunday school teachers than divorced ones? Or, worse, could it be because divorce now seems “normal” to us?
Moore “fleshes” his toughts out further in a forthcoming issue of the Southwestern Journal of Theology contains an article he writes, entitled “Southern Baptist Sexual Revolutionaries: Cultural Accomodation, Spiritual Conflict, and the Baptist Vision of the Family.”
[ht:RM]
