'Take the Ship': Conservatives Aim to Commandeer Southern Baptists
Allen Nelson IV strolled to the front of his little church in focal Arkansas, halted before the fellowship table with three enormous crosses behind him, and spread out a goliath dark banner with a white skull and challenged.
For quite a long while, the minister and father of five had felt that an excessive number of his kindred Christians were floating unquestionably leftward on issues of race, sex and the exacting authority of the Bible. The banner was a blessing from a companion, empowered — like Mr. Nelson — by the possibility of gallantly recovering the confidence.
The time had come, he accepted, to "take the boat."
"We're battling for the actual heart of the Southern Baptist Convention," Mr. Nelson said in a meeting. "For quite a while what I figured a decent Southern Baptist minister ought to do was to send cash and trust the framework. We can't do that any longer."
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