Welcome to the conversations that matter

podcast. My name is John Harris. We are going to talk today about the

Caring Well Initiative in the Southern Baptist Convention. The reason for that

is because yesterday I went

through an email, actually I think it was a letter that Russell Moore had put out

there last year to I think it was trust ease at the ethics and religious liberty

Commission and this hasn't been public information until very recently

probably on purpose it was made I mean obviously someone on purpose made it public

information but I'm thinking it probably who knows if Russell Moore was even one of the

ones approving this publication but I I don't know it certainly has as I said yesterday a political

utility it basically characterizes those who chased Russell Moore out of the

convention, those really mean-spirited people as being those in favor somehow of

sexual abuse and somehow or wanting to cover for that and then they're also

racist white nationalists supremacist etc that's that's the the spin at least that were also more put on it and some of it was just so ridiculous I pointed that out yesterday

But one of the things he talked about was the caring well initiative and how the caring well initiative was one of the things that Mike Stone and the

executive board had a problem with him for and so they they wanted to investigate

him to see if there was a connection between churches

leaving the Southern Baptist Convention and what he was doing and the

Caring Well Initiative was just I think it might have been one of the first things he

brought up and was one of the major points that he made and so I thought you know

what let's talk about the

caring well initiative a little bit because I knew a little bit about it but today I

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