Beth Moore Slams SBC Database that ‘Credibly Accuses’ Women of Being Female ‘Pastors’
Three months ago, Pastor Mike Law of Arlington Baptist Church published a list of 170 SBC churches that have women serving as “pastors” in an effort to support a proposed SBC constitutional amendment to bar any Southern Baptist Convention Church from giving women the title of “pastor.” This amendment was ultimately successful, and Mike Law won the day.
But the list was pretty simple- use publicly available information posted to the church’s website showing the name and picture of the person in question. I.e., a screenshot from the ‘about us’ staff page.
One could almost think of the list as a database of Southern Baptist women who have been credibly accused of being female pastors. Given the enthusiasm so many have shown over Guidepost’s upcoming Ministry Check website, you’d think they’d love the idea.
Well, Beth Allison Barr discovered this and became terribly upset. We last wrote about her after she refused to to affirm biblical inerrancy, claimed that the line breaks in Ephesians 5 change the whole narrative of the bible, argued that all complementarians are racists, and said that we need more bibles that aren’t translated primarily by white people.
Barr found the whole ordeal incredibly distressing and taxing. She described the list as “dangerous targeting” and eventually deleted her thread, overcome with anxietry and dread.
Karen Swallow Prior followed suite, accusing Law of doxxing and targeting women by sharing their church’s website.
Beth Moore chimed in with perhaps the nastiest attribution of motives yet, saying that the goal of this doxing is to make the enemy “reachable” because Mike Law wants the women “attacked” so that they “learn their lesson.”
It’s a ghoulish suggestion and ridiculous on the face of it. You’d think Moore would have learned a thing or two about ascribing false motives, especially after she had to eat crow (albeit reluctantly) following her denunciation of Covington High School’s Nick Sandman.
Apparently not.
The call to the pastorate is a public call. While a church doesn’t have to put up an image and name of its pastor on its website, if the pastor or church isn’t ready to deal with the fallout or the consequences of a decision from their denomination, they probably shouldn’t have accepted the call in the first place.