![]() I really thought I was going to throw up – I couldn’t get away from that store fast enough, and it was a store I had never been inside of and the people were probably all nice people! As we walked past a Christian bookstore, my husband said, “Why not try in there? They always have cute little trinkets and stuff,” But by this time my stomach was hurting and my head was beginning to throb. A few years ago I needed to buy a gift in a town where we were visiting. ![]() I still suffer from a kind of trauma, though. For a long time before writing novels, I worked as a freelance journalist – so I love what you do, Julie! I graduated from Moody in the Communications program back in 1971 and am mostly retired now from writing. For a number of years my husband and I (he was with me in this journey) “roamed the wilderness” before finding a home in an Anglican Church here in Canada. I wrote more than 25 novels for the “Christian Publishing Industrial Complex”, before leaving it AND the Evangelical Church AND everything remotely evangelical or fundamental. Recently she tweeted about how social media algorithms have “made us crazy.” “I love so many Southern Baptist people, so many Southern Baptist churches, but I don’t identify with some of the things in our heritage that haven’t remained in the past,” she said in March 2021, in discussing her departure from the SBC.ĭespite social media controversies, Moore had remained an active Twitter user, connecting with just under a million follows and mixing in photos from her life, thoughts about cooking and family, and reflections on the Bible. ![]() Still, she said in 2021, she was grateful for the role SBC churches played in her life, saying that her home church was a “safe place” during a difficult childhood. She now attends an Anglican church and frequently tweets about her experiences as a newcomer to a liturgical tradition. “And suddenly, the most important thing to talk about was whether or not a woman could stand at the pulpit and give a message.”Įventually Moore would cut ties with Lifeway and leave the SBC. “We were in the middle of the biggest sexual abuse scandal that has ever hit our denomination,” Moore said in March 2021. That debate overshadowed other issues in the Southern Baptist Convention, including the denomination’s reckoning with sexual abuse in churches. Then Moore posted what she thought was an innocuous comment on Twitter about speaking at a Mother’s Day church service, which sparked a national controversy over the role of women in the church. Her ministry lost millions in the years after Trump’s election. That criticism led to a backlash from pastors and churches, who stopped buying Moore’s Bible studies, which were published by Lifeway Christian Resources at the time. I did not expect us to be us.” Beth Moore speaks at the Southern Baptist Convention in Birmingham, Alabama, on June 10, 2019. “I expected Donald Trump to be Donald Trump,” she said during a 2021 speaking engagement in Nashville, Tennessee. She ran afoul of Southern Baptist leaders for her criticism of Donald Trump during the 2016 election, especially after the Access Hollywood tapes surfaced of the candidate making lewd remarks about women - and seemed to be met with shrugged shoulders by evangelical leaders. To donate, click here.įor decades, Moore was beloved among Southern Baptists and other evangelicals for best-selling Bible studies and sold-out Living Proof events for women, named for Moore’s ministry. Give a gift of $30 or more to The Roys Report this month, and you will receive a copy of “Wounded Workers: Recovering from Heartache in the Workplace and the Church” by Kirk Farnsworth.
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