“You never want a crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is it is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” –Rahm Emanuel, Chief of Staff to Barack Obama
Bad news to you is good news to progressive reformers. Where you see a problem, they see a solution—a solution that typically means more power or money or both for them. That’s the way it works in politics. That’s the way it is starting to work in the Southern Baptist Convention. A sad story of sexual abuse is published in a secular newspaper detailing 700 abuse victims over 20 years in Southern Baptist churches.