by Sandy » Thu Jun 06, 2019 12:22 pm
Actually it was an unintentional omission. I was referencing Stephen's original post, hence, I was referring those who took the moderate to liberal side of the controversy in the SBC. Most of those are either still in the SBC because their church is still supporting the CP, or they've affiliated with the Alliance or CBF. They are mostly political conservatives.
Tracking membership among Baptists isn't easy. I don't know if other Baptist denominations show such a variance between attendance and membership as the SBC does, but I'd guess they probably do. The last handbook of Denominations I have shows a 2010 membership figure for the SBC at 16.1 million and a total number of Baptists of all kinds in the US rounded off at 31 million. So that means just a little over half. But the SBC has dropped a million members since then, down to 14.9 million.
The political conservatives among SBC moderates or ex-SBC moderates aren't just from Arizona and Texas. A lot of them are in North Carolina and Georgia, associated with universities like Wake Forest and Mercer. Theologically liberal. Politically right wing.