Former President Jimmy Carter has written an op-ed piece in which he announces that he has severed his ties with the Southern Baptist convention due to that church-body’s teaching that women should not be pastors and should be submissive to their husbands. But the thing is, as Joe Carter (no relation) reports, the ex-president took this step eight years ago. And he still attends the same Baptist church in Plains, Georgia, where he serves as a deacon and teaches Sunday School. (Could one of you Baptists explain how someone can quit the denomination while still being a member of a congregation in that denomination? What exactly did Mr. Carter do eight years ago to sever those ties?)
At any rate, is a church convention’s decision on the role of women a good reason to leave a church? What IS a good reason to leave a church?
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