Welcome to the conversations that matter

podcast. My name is John Harris. As I record this it is the

morning about 11 a.m. on the 5th Saturday of June 2021 and there's some there's some discussion going on online of course it's a

weekend so a lot of people are out it's probably gonna blow up more on

Monday which is when I think I'll post this but

there's there's kind of a discussion going on people are people are mad people feel used

some people at least who are conservatives in the Southern Baptist Convention more

theologically conservative and politically conservative by Russell Moore and

then there's people on the progressive side who are just incensed because they believe everything

Russell Moore has written and they're upset at the executive committee and Mike

Stone in particular etc and I don't know I don't know all the strategy behind this what I'm about to discuss, which is essentially it's a leaked letter that Russell Moore had written to J.D. Greer.

But it follows on the heels of another leaked letter that was supposedly to the Executive Committee of the ethics and Religious Liberty Commission from last year, which apparently that's not even true.

It didn't a lot of them found out about at the same time many of us did.

But I don't know. I'm not sure what they're trying to accomplish. There's a few thoughts that enter my mind. One is this

is trying to drive up the negatives for Mike Stone before the convention that serves a

and it's obvious to me it serves a completely political purpose. You read this letter from Russell Moore to

JD Greer. Basically if I had to summarize it's like I don't know like 13 14 pages

maybe he says that basically Mike Stone and the executive committee in the

SBC are just these horrible people trying to cover for sex abuse.

Now you don't have to read the letter. That's basically the gist of it.

And he includes all kinds of

language in it though that make it clear to me. This is a public grandstanding measure of

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