The Southern Baptist Convention Is Living With an Unconfessed Power Grab – Part One Southern Baptist Convention power shift Conservative Resurgence consequences SBC governance and control Why accountability threatened leadership Institutional loyalty over repentance The current crisis inside the Southern Baptist Convention is not a sudden collapse, but the long-term result of centralized power built during the Conservative Resurgence, where winning control reshaped governance and made accountabi

The 1845 Baptist Split: When the Church Chose Slavery Over Unity Southern Baptist Convention slavery origins 1845 Baptist church split over slavery Triennial Convention slaveholding missionaries Baptist theological justification for slavery Augusta Georgia Southern Baptist founding In 1845, the Baptist church split into Northern and Southern conventions not over theology, but over whether missionaries could own slaves—a fracture that still divides American Christianity today. American church div