
Baptist Messengers show their ballots during a vote at the 2021 SBC annual meeting in Nashville. File photo by Eric Brown.
An open letter released today (May 22) urges messengers planning to attend the upcoming Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Dallas to vote to keep the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission as an entity of the SBC should the anticipated motion to abolish it be proposed.
Ten former SBC presidents signed the letter that also notes concerns related to ERLC and acknowledges that “every entity — including the ERLC — should be open to critique and committed to improvement. … We do not write to defend the status quo.”
Still, “there is a difference between refinement and eradication. A sledgehammer is not the tool for adjusting a mirror,” the former presidents state in the letter.
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