Stollar, a child liberation theologian who advocates for survivors of abuse, details how Baucham’s comment was borne from a theology that combines the Calvinistic doctrine of total depravity with the complementarian doctrine of patriarchy in order to position men as animal control and police officers over their children. And one of the reasons he makes them so cute is so that you won’t kill them.”
… One of the reasons God makes them so small is so that they won’t kill you. The stiffening up of the body, that happens early. In one sermon, Baucham explains to the roaring laughter of the crowd: “People who don’t believe in original sin don’t have children. Voddie Baucham peddles ignorant, violent power over childrenīaucham’s ignorant, violent power peddling begins with how his theology of original sin shapes his understanding of infants and his punishment of children. Unfortunately, when it comes to the family, Baucham has consistently revealed himself to be a warrior for ignorance and a peddler for the monster of violent male power. In fact, we also recognize Baucham naming the approaching monster. “Unfortunately, when it comes to the family, Baucham has consistently revealed himself to be a warrior for ignorance and a peddler for the monster of violent male power.”Įveryone recognizes, as Strachan pointed out, that Baucham is a warrior. He also has been accused of plagiarism and misquoting others in his latest book, charges he and his publisher deny.įor a denomination that sees itself as a champion of family values, one would assume they would aspire to nominate and elect a leader who is a warrior for the family.
Whether Baucham is even eligible to run for SBC president is in question, as he lives overseas and is not a member of a U.S.-based SBC church.
His potential candidacy is supported by the Conservative Baptist Network, a far-right group in the already very conservative world of the SBC. Even some SBC insiders and traditionalists are concerned about Baucham’s influence. Strachan, former president of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, is a vocal complementarian who, like Baucham, often rails against the feminization of men and the wokeness of the social gospel.īut despite Strachan and Baucham’s love fest for one another, not everyone is fantasizing about Baucham’s potential rise to leadership in the SBC. Of course, Baucham himself has similarly swooned over Strachan in his review of Strachan’s book Christianity and Wokeness, saying, “Few men possess the mix of intellect, winsomeness, academic rigor, pastoral sensitivity, and raw courage that drips from every page of this book.”
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