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Peter Weber
Tue, March 9, 2021, 10:51 PM

Beth Moore, a popular writer and speaker on the Bible, has quit the Southern Baptist Convention, and people in evangelical Christian circles are struggling to explain how big a deal that is for the largest U.S. Protestant denomination and the broader evangelical community, especially evangelical women.

Moore told Religion News Service on Friday that she is "no longer a Southern Baptist," RNS's Bob Smietana reported Tuesday. "I am still a Baptist, but I can no longer identify with Southern Baptists," she added. "I love so many Southern Baptist people, so many Southern Baptist churches, but I don't identify with some of the things in our heritage that haven't remained in the past." She also said she's ended her 25-year publishing and events partnership with Lifeway Christian Resources, the SBC's publishing arm.

Moore, who has said her local Southern Baptist church "growing up saved my live" as a refuge from sexual abuse at home, began her ministry by mixing Bible study into her aerobics class at First Baptist Church in Houston. Lifeway published her first book in 1995, and she then founded Living Proof Ministries. Southern Baptists do not allow women to be pastors, but her teaching ministry earned millions of dollars from 2001 to 2016.

Then, in October 2016, Moore was shocked at Donald Trump's comments on the Access Hollywood tape — and more shocked that SBC leaders rallied around him. "The disorientation of this was staggering," she told RNS. After Moore criticized Trump, she became something of a pariah. And when she became an advocate for victims of sexual abuse after the Houston Chronicle in February 2019 uncovered more than 700 cases of sexual abuse by Southern Baptist leaders over 20 years, she says she felt even more an outsider. From 2017 to 2019, RNS reports, Moore's Living Proof Ministries lost $1.8 million .

"I do not believe these are days for mincing words," Moore tweeted in December. "I'm 63 1/2 years old & I have never seen anything in these United States of America I found more astonishingly seductive & dangerous to the saints of God than Trumpism. This Christian nationalism is not of God. Move back from it." Moore expects her audiences will be smaller now, she told RNS, but "I am going to serve whoever God puts in front of me."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/beth-moore-popular-bible-writer-055149692.html

dillybar

Isn't she one of the gay ministers? Why is she even in the house of God let alone preach. Just sayin'!

EmilyD

Did she become outraged at Biden's sexual abuse, too?

Liberty Tree

Beth Moore charges outrages prices for her products. If she supports Biden and his agenda she needs to reevaluate her principles.

Y360AZ

Huh. Never heard of her. But I am not a Southern Baptist, nor do I live in the South.

Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois

Beth Moore is a false teacher.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

Rose42

Yes she is - for many easily seen reasons. She was also not accepted by all Southern Baptists

saltwind 78 Loc: Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

While I admire many Christian doctrines, I am no big fan of the Southern Baptist Church. They have absolutely no tolerance for other religions. In the past, they encouraged many of their church members to convert Jews on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. I was fishing on a head boat several years ago, and a Southern Baptist Minister saw a Jewish symbol around my neck. For the next six hours, I had to listen to this religious fanatic preach to me, even though I told him that I was perfectly happy with my religion many times. He even followed me into the parking lot once we came back. I guess I should not have been so polite, and told him to either shut up, or move to a different seat. He even told me that he found that my drinking a beer was offensive to him. Drinking beer on a fishing boat offensive? Gimme a break.

RascalRiley Loc: Somewhere south of Detroit

Living in your neck of the woods you were fortunate to have been born straight.

Now be a good Christian and love all thy neighbours

EmilyD

You may want to practice what you preach there, bub...

RascalRiley Loc: Somewhere south of Detroit

I do practice what I preach. I do not feel or express hate for anyone

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

The Baptist tendency to proselytize, even in the face of polite disinterest, never ceases to amaze...

We had a group that used to come over once a year... I recall them being extremely rude at an outdoor event jointly held by the Christian and Muslim student unions.... Politely suggesting that if they disagreed with the event they could just leave was a concept that was far to complicated for them

Hope you caught more fish than the twit

EmilyD

Your own words betray you. All one has to do is go back and read your posts. With Trump alone you show considerable hatred....

RascalRiley Loc: Somewhere south of Detroit

I do not hate Trump. In fact I consider him to the greatest con artist I have ever had the pleasure of watching. I learned a long time ago, hate destroys the hater. Why would I waste emotional energy a grifter. I do feel sorry for those he is fleecing though. He screwed up and now wants the cult to pay his legal fees. Send your cheques to Donald J Trump dot com and get an instant blessing from the Golden Child