This was an excellent discussion: Rick Warren recently was on a Christianity Today (or Astray) podcast with Russell Moore (former head of the ERLC and influential in Southern Baptist circles). Warren's church (Saddleback) was recently ejected from the SBC due to their hiring of women pastors, including a male/female pastor team to replace him in retirement, all which runs contrary to the Baptist Faith and Message (BFM2000). Warren argued that the Bible allows women pastors based on strained texts, essentially saying, "I know the clear texts that disallow it, but since there are other texts that seem to allow it, we should, too." He claims that he has repented of his male-only pastoral view, and that his change was entirely biblical and uninfluenced by culture --- yet, his new understanding coincided with the cresting wave of the #metoomovement and #churchtoo claims that we "need" more women in leadership. Considering that the besetting sin of Warren's...
