{"id":690,"date":"2026-06-22T22:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=690"},"modified":"2026-06-22T22:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:37:10","slug":"the-southern-baptist-convention-was-going-mainstream-then-the-christian-nationalists-weighed-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"The Southern Baptist Convention Was Going Mainstream. Then the Christian Nationalists Weighed In."},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div><ul><li><span>Share on Facebook<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Share on Twitter<\/span><\/li><li><i><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><\/i><span>Share on Bluesky<\/span><\/li><li><span>Email<\/span><\/li><li><span>Comments<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>With more than<\/span> 12.7 million members across some 46,000 churches, the Southern Baptist Convention is massive. As easily the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, it\u2019s also one of the loudest voices in American religious life\u2014it also runs six of the nation\u2019s 10 largest theological seminaries, which train future pastors. As Bob Smietana, a veteran religion reporter with Religion News Service, told me last week, the SBC\u2019s sheer size \u201cgives them some kind of clout that other people don\u2019t have.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=688\">In This Utah Primary, Trump Endorsed One Candidate, Pardoned the Other<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or as William Wolfe, the president of the Center for Baptist Leadership, a group that aspires to make the SBC more conservative, put it to me in a phone call this weekend, \u201cWhen the Southern Baptist Convention sneezes, the whole country says, \u2018Excuse me.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because of the SBC\u2019s size, it\u2019s also extremely influential politically\u2014which is where the Center for Baptist Leadership, which Wolfe created with a handful of fellow SBC members, comes in. \u201cThe left wants to subvert or fracture southern Baptists as a political conservative voting blocks,\u201d he says. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to let them do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are signs that Wolfe and his allies are succeeding. Earlier this month, when tens of thousands of representatives from SBC churches met in Orlando for the annual conference, the group voted in favor of codifying an official ban on women pastors (though most SBC churches already allow only male pastors), affirmed robust immigration enforcement, and acknowledged the United States\u2019 history of \u201csins such as slavery, racism, abortion, injustice, and sexual immorality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group also elected a new president, Florida pastor Willy Rice, who is theologically and politically conservative, and has railed against critical race theory and decried the \u201cwoke riptide\u201d in the denomination. The Center for Baptist Leadership endorsed Rice for SBC president; Rice has appeared on Center for Baptist Leadership podcasts and at events hosted by the group. Shortly after the meeting, on the Center for Baptist Leadership\u2019s podcast, the group\u2019s president, William Wolfe, hailed Rice\u2019s victory as \u201cthe end of the SBC being steered by weaponized empathy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the SBC appears to be making a significant course correction in the form of a sharp rightward tack\u2014a major victory for Wolfe and his small but vocal group of right-wing leaders within the SBC, some of whom have ties to an ascendant movement of self-proclaimed Christian nationalists.<\/p>\n<p><span>The Center for<\/span> Baptist Leadership emerged in early 2024 from what Wolfe and his colleagues see as a dangerous departure in the SBC from the conservative values\u2014traditional family structures, clearly defined gender roles, a belief in the infallibility of the Bible\u2014that have grounded the denomination since its founding. Over the last decade, the SBC moved toward the center, influenced by social justice movements like Black Lives Matter and the movement to expose sexual abuse and harassment.<\/p>\n<p>Wolfe and his colleagues oppose SBC leaders whom they see as \u201ccaught up in the spirit of the worldly \u2018MeToo\u2019 movement, DEI ideology, and social justice signaling,\u201d according to the group\u2019s website. Those misguided aims, the Center for Baptist Leadership claims, have led to a scourge of problems, including women pastors, financial secrecy, and an obsession with blaming the SBC as a whole for the sex abuse scandals in individual churches, thereby bringing \u201cperverse, anti-Christian standards of justice to judge claims of abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But it isn\u2019t just church matters that the SBC seeks to influence\u2014it\u2019s also national politics, a goal that Wolfe is well qualified to achieve. As I wrote two years ago:<br\/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Wolfe served in the first Trump administration both as the deputy assistant secretary of defense and as director of House affairs at the Department of State. He is also an alumnus of Heritage Action, a sister organization of the Heritage Foundation, the arch-conservative think tank behind Project 2025, whose chief architect, Russell Vought, posted on X that he was \u201cproud to work with @William_E_Wolfe on scoping out a sound Christian Nationalism.\u201d A few months later, the <em>Bucks County Beacon<\/em> uncovered a lengthy online manifesto on the goals of Christian nationalists. The document, which listed Wolfe and Joel Webbon as contributing editors and Oklahoma Sen. Dusty Deevers as a co-author, called for \u201ccivil magistrates\u201d to usher in \u201cthe establishment of the Ten Commandments as the foundational law of the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wolfe told me he believes that SBC members would largely agree with those sentiments. \u201cIt\u2019s something Baptists historically believe, that we should be involved in politics and we should be unashamed about bringing our Christian beliefs and presuppositions into the political square,\u201d he said. He said he could imagine a version of a Christian America where people of other faiths held office, though he noted that some Baptist founders \u201cthought that only Christians should be able to hold elected office.\u201d On the issue of women voting, he declined to weigh in, stating only, \u201cI think that the 19th amendment was duly enacted and is the law of the land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On X, where he has 96,000 followers, Wolfe is a firebrand, regularly arguing against religious tolerance and multiculturalism: \u201cThe idea that \u2018all religions deserve equal respect\u2019 is one of the most disastrous lies of the modern age,\u201d he fumed last week. On the same day, in another tweet, he wrote, \u201cMass migration is biological warfare waged by secular globalist elites against the native Christian peoples of the West.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In our phone call, Wolfe stressed that his tweets don\u2019t necessarily reflect the work of the Center for Baptist Leadership. But he also reaffirmed his social media statements, calling religious pluralism a \u201crecipe for disaster\u201d and arguing that \u201cthere are people who want to see native Christian Western populations diminished and negatively impacted by third-world migration.\u201d He said he saw Hungary as an example of a country that has successfully handled immigration. \u201cHungary is a spiritually dead country in many ways, but it\u2019s preserved its Christian heritage,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s preserved its people\u2014they\u2019ve not allowed their people to be replaced by millions of migrants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the extremism watchdog group Right Wing Watch posted a video of Wolfe quoting a scripture passage. There are times when \u201ceven the God of peace proclaims by his providence, \u2018to arms!\u2019\u201d he says. \u201cIf we have ever lived in a point of time in American history since then that we could argue that now is a time \u2018to arms\u2019 again, I think we are getting close.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When I asked Wolfe what he meant by the statement about Christians being called to arms, he said it was more general than specific. \u201cIt was just sort of a basic point of Christians have been in that situation before many times throughout the centuries,\u201d he said. \u201cMaybe we\u2019ll find ourselves in a position like that again.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=685\">Trump Threatens Iran as JD Vance Announces \u201cGreat Progress\u201d on Ceasefire<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Wolfe isn\u2019t the<\/span> Center for Baptist Leadership\u2019s only powerful connection to the Christian right. The fiscal sponsor of the group is <em>American Reformer<\/em>, an online magazine founded by Josh Abbotoy, an entrepreneur who also runs a venture capital firm that aims to build a Christian techno-utopian community in rural Appalachia. Abbotoy, who also serves as a visiting scholar at the Center for Baptist Leadership, told me via email that he sees the recent votes at SBC as indicative of a sea change in how Christians are beginning to relate to the broader culture. \u201cI think we are starting to see a shift toward a cultural insurgency model,\u201d he wrote to me, \u201cin which evangelical leaders strategically adjust to the reality that broader society has become less amenable to Christian values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael Clary, a Kentucky pastor and Christian nationalist who serves on the advisory board of the Center for Baptist Leadership, also sees the SBC as needing a more muscular faith. In an email to me, he bemoaned a modern, excessively passive Christian culture, in thrall to a \u201closer theology\u201d that demanded that the church \u201cretreat into pietistic ghettos while we watch the world burn.\u201d Instead, he wrote, Christians \u201cshould bring their convictions into public life, including their votes, their advocacy, and their cultural engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And there are signs that the SBC\u2019s ties to Christian nationalists extend beyond the Center for Baptist Leadership. Consider Al Mohler, a prominent SBC leader who has served as president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kentucky since 1993. He has witnessed decades of social change, but put forth this year\u2019s amendment to ban women pastors. He appeared last week on the podcast of Doug Wilson, a self-proclaimed Christian nationalist pastor\u2014though not a member of the SBC\u2014who presides over a small fiefdom in Moscow, Idaho. Mohler expressed frustration with what he considered a misconception that Baptist forefathers were \u201csome kind of strict separationist when it came to Christian morality and the society.\u201d Baptists, he said, actually had a lot in common with Christian nationalists like Wilson. \u201cI have been calling for maximum Christian influence in the public square my whole life,\u201d he said.<br\/><br\/>Smietana, the religion reporter, noted that the Center for Baptist Leadership\u2019s contingent at the annual meeting, \u201cdidn\u2019t have huge numbers.\u201d The group\u2019s budget isn\u2019t publicly available because they exist under the financial umbrella of <em>American Reformer<\/em>, though Wolfe told me the organization is run \u201con a shoestring.\u201d Still, Smietana said, \u201cthe group has really influenced the narrative and the public relations,\u201d he said, through its social media presence, podcasts, and relationships its leaders have built with influential SBC members. The election of Rice and the other conservative victories, he said, \u201care a real win for them,\u201d and a signal that the broader SBC may be open to their agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Finn, a religion professor who leads the Institute for Faith and Culture at North Greenville University, a Baptist college in South Carolina, was careful not to overstate the Center for Baptist Leadership\u2019s influence on the SBC. But he did acknowledge that it reflected a growing movement within the larger denomination toward a \u201cpopulist distrust of institutions and elites.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The amendment that Mohler proposed to officially ban women pastors hasn\u2019t been adopted yet; SBC leaders will hold the final vote at next year\u2019s convention in Indianapolis. For Wolfe, this year\u2019s meeting was confirmation of Center for Baptist Leadership\u2019s influence\u2014and a sign to continue the crusade. \u201cConservative reformers in the SBC aren\u2019t the fringe,\u201d he tweeted. \u201cWe are the representatives of what the broad base of grassroots Southern Baptists think &amp; want. We are the center. Time to assume it and act accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<section><h3>Don\u2019t just click away.<\/h3>\n<p>We need your help. We\u2019re halfway through our Summer Membership Drive, and only $65,000 toward our $200,000 goal. But there\u2019s good news: <strong><span>This week only, every donation will be doubled, up to $50,000, thanks to a generous reader<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s <strong>twice the impact<\/strong> for intrepid reporting that peels back the layers to publish the truth\u2014and the context you need to break it all down. 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