Shut That Blog Down

. . . was more or less what Wade Burleson was told by the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board. Instead, he resigned as trustee.

Seems Burleson had some serious issues with resolutions passed, including the prohibiting of missionaries from speaking in tongues (presumably not that of the foreign country in which he or she is a guest), and this one: “A trustee must publicly affirm a board-approved action, even if he cannot privately support it.” Says Burleson: “In 161 years of Southern Baptist history, there has never been a worse policy passed by any agency”—not to mention strange, given the Baptists’ history of freedom of conscience.

But this has more to do with the board’s perception that Burleson was telling behind-closed-doors tales out of school—which is not all that hard to understand. Says the board’s trustee chairman: “It’s sort of like if you have a problem in your family, you don’t want the neighborhood to decide for you; you need to keep that within your family.”

To read the blog in question, go here .