The Fight for the Southern Baptist Convention - and Strange (Racist, Antisemitic) Bedfellows

ANALYSIS: Dogmatic power seekers within the SBC have found common ground with characters whose controversial ideas were once seen as representing the face of hate in America.

Image posted by a podcaster with whom William Wolfe joined to discuss his efforts with the Center for Baptist Leadership (Photo: Screenshot, X)

"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."
— The Tempest (Act II, Scene 2)

Borrowing from Shakespearean imagery of one who finds himself thrust by circumstances into the unexpected company of an odious character, it has often been said that politics makes for strange bedfellows.

But that adage barely begins to describe the politics currently engulfing the Southern Baptist Convention.

There, dogmatic power seekers within the nation’s largest Protestant denomination have found common ground with characters whose controversial ideas were once seen as representing the face of hate in America.

Among those leading that effort to push the Southern Baptist Convention even farther to the right is William Wolfe, a first-term Trump administration appointee and now executive director of the Center for Baptist Leadership.

Wolfe recently joined a podcast to…