{"id":9143,"date":"2021-06-15T11:20:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T16:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9143"},"modified":"2021-06-15T11:21:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T16:21:54","slug":"are-the-southern-baptists-a-denomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9143","title":{"rendered":"ARE THE SOUTHERN BAPTISTS A DENOMINATION?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thousands of Southern Baptists are gathered this week in Nashville for their annual convention.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A number of controversies and conflicts look to make for a challenging week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Southern Baptist&#8221; is big tent that has strongly divided constituencies over issues like Critical Race Theory and the handling\/mishandling of abuse victims.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since Southern Baptist churches function with lots of autonomy, and since there are deep divides on many issues, I am thinking we should call the Southern Baptists what they really are: a very loose affiliation of Protestants who have some semblance of agreement about the gospel&#8230;though that may now be in jeopardy as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Southern Baptists are gathered this week in Nashville for their annual convention. A number of controversies and conflicts look to make for a challenging week. &#8220;Southern Baptist&#8221; is big tent that has strongly divided constituencies over issues like Critical Race Theory and the handling\/mishandling of abuse victims. Since Southern Baptist churches function with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-controversy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9145,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143\/revisions\/9145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}