That’s fascinating, Jonathan. I’m quite convinced that missionaries in the field differ from most SBs in the pew on a vast number of things…

is aslan a theophany? an alternate incarnation? the lion at creation makes me think the former, but the sacrifice on the stone table makes me second guess toward the latter. either way that man was a freak for putting it in the world.

I’m not sure it was Wendy’s decision tbh. I wonder if the editors got ahold of it and spun the summary to be much more negative than Wendy’s review was in its totality.

Ooooooh this is so right up my alley! 😍😍 Can't wait to listen.

I’m not a CRT apologist per se. I don’t think it’s a silver bullet or magic formula to solve the equation of race in America. But I don’t think most CRT scholars think that either. There’s explanatory power there to get at several aspects of that long, winding, and tragic story.

I don’t go into this in great detail in the piece, but I have a hunch that we can trace those moments of stagnation and recession in the SBC as well, and we’re seeing the fruit of the most recent recession in the last 5 or so years.

Bell suggests that legal pushes for Black civil rights only go so far as is useful for broader white-driven political and social concerns. When those concerns change or are threatened, progress toward equity stagnates or even recedes.

This is exactly what Bell finds wrt the push for desegregation and concerns about foreign policy in the midst of the Cold War. The conversations in the SBC mirror the political maneuvers made by the federal government. It’s pretty striking.