Capstone Report · Feb 29, 2020
Conservatives ‘Encouraged’ by ERLC Study Committee Members
Conservative Southern Baptists expressed their cautious optimism that a new Study Committee will “Ask the hard questions” about the progressive-leaning politics of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC). The Study Committee was announced February 18 by the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention. The committee members were announced Thursday, February 27, 2020 in a release by Baptist Press.
Committee members include:
SBC Executive Committee Chairman Mike Stone
Ron Hale, retired pastor, Jackson, Tenn.
Mike Lawson, senior pastor, First Baptist of Sherman, Texas
Cheryl Samples, retired, Dallas, Ga.
