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The Woke Signal: Baptist Seminary professor admits it’s all about skin color

Bad things are happening in Evangelical churches, and the seminaries are where it all starts. At Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS), one professor excels at shining the Woke Signal. He took to Social Media Saturday to argue for more diversity in Southern Baptist life. Not a bad thing, but the method he advocated was absurd. Meet Malcom Yarnell. He signed the Traditional Statement on Soteriology. He’s now fully a Social Justice Warrior. He thinks hiring in the Southern Baptist Convention should be about skin color.

Yarnell wrote, “What if, from now on, every Anglo male candidate for a SBC entity leader’s role were to refuse appointment—of course, only as their conscience leads—until a more diverse leadership, representative of our desire to reflect the redeemed gathered around God’s throne, were installed?