All but the dullest of wits will see how RD.org piece linked here makes my point of what really was at stake in the fundamentalist takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention. Bill Hull has written an interesting book which I hope to read soon with Fisher's recommendation, but the bigger point has always been elsewhere.
That's where Cecil Sherman in his conversation with UNC chancellor Bill Friday and the many writings of Bill Moyers in defense of James Dunn in the sites of Helms, Pressler and Albert Lee Smith make the bigger point. Molly Worthen and Hull, even the second thoughts of SBTS Prez before Honeycutt, are interesting.
The fundy artists opened up the SBC to be led by lesser lights, Their political goals have now become apparent in the stubborn loyalists to the Trump Cause
http://religiondispatches.org/trumps-me ... ian-right/Bryant Wright and Russ Moore cannot put the genie back in the Bottle. Alabama, Hull's last location is a grand case in point and the misbegotten hiring of Timothy George took away the voice of Foy Valentine and James Dunn and the leadership in the public square to challenge the Tea Party and the Tumpists, even Ted Cruz a disciple of Ed Young.
RD.org in tandem with Wuthnow's Rough Country makes my point.
Hull and some other second guessers are interesting parlor game. But the riot in the streets, The Trump ralleys were the true vision of Pressler, Helms and Albert Lee Smith and now it is upon us.