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It's true that most intersectional activists aren't going to be reconciled to evangelical witness simply because we become open to CRT or words like "whiteness." There are larger theological targets. Eventually doctrines of sexuality & atonement will be "slaveholder" religion
BUT: this also applies to some of the loudest right-wing critics of the SBC. Most won't be satisfied that the denomination isn't hijacked simply b/c you renounce academic wokeness. The only way to "unify" the SBC in this way is to walk back last 20 years of racial reconciliation.
It is 1000% not an accident that some factions began accusing SBC leaders of heresy around the same time that Donald Trump became president. Trump's racialized nationalism did not create these fault lines, but it did remove some of the biggest reasons for hiding them.
My feeling is that just as there are some who underestimate what they're going to be asked to give up in the name of "justice," there are some who underestimate what giving credence and platform to SBC social justice truthers is going to entail in the long run.
Especially if Trump wins—unlikely, IMO, but certainly possible—pressure on SBC leaders to pivot away from racial reconciliation and focus on shoring up the denomination's financial base through worldview wars will be v. intense. And in the moment, such a move won't feel costly
In fact, it will feel like pursuing unity in a denomination on the brink of major splinter.
But the cost to the SBC's orthopraxy will be devastating. It will undo much good, prop up bad-faith actors as heroes of the convention, and exile godly and courageous people.
But the cost to the SBC's orthopraxy will be devastating. It will undo much good, prop up bad-faith actors as heroes of the convention, and exile godly and courageous people.
