The Southern Baptist Convention is preparing to vote on a proposed constitutional ban on churches with women pastors.

From its towering white steeple and red-brick facade to its Sunday services filled with rousing gospel hymns and evangelistic sermons, First Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia, bears many of the classic hallmarks of a Southern Baptist church.

On a recent Sunday, its pastor for women and children, Kim Eskridge, urged members to invite friends and neighbors to an upcoming vacation Bible school — a perennial Baptist activity — to help “reach families in the community with the gospel.”

But because that pastor is a woman, First Baptist’s days in the Southern Baptist Convention may be numbered.

At the SBC’s annual meeting June 11-12 in Indianapolis, representatives will vote on whether to amend the denomination’s constitution to essentially ban churches with any women pastors — and not just in the top job. That measure received overwhelming approval in a preliminary vote last year.

  • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    6 months ago

    Paul, or rather the amalgamation of Paul and the various authors of the texts canonized as the Pauline epistles, was a fuckin’ dick man of his place and time, and including the letters in the Bible really fucked up Christianity over the long-term.