Beth Moore Crawls Out of Cave to Scold Southern Baptist Men, Again

Yesterday, Beth Moore emerged from whatever cave she has been hiding in since abandoning her Southern Baptist church several years ago and unleashed a lengthy social media tirade aimed at Southern Baptists who continue to believe that God's Word means what it says regarding the office of pastor.

Predictably, the thread was greeted with applause from the usual crowd, including Kay Warren, who quickly rushed to her defense with a response that may have inadvertently revealed more about the true nature of this controversy than Beth's entire manifesto.

Here’s what she posted:

Beth Moore@BethMooreLPM

Those in the SBC who think I no longer should have anything to say about the SBC profoundly underestimate the power of love. I’d served southern Baptist women for 40 years by the time I left. And when I left, I left directly on their behalf because it became disturbingly clear to

2:13 PM · Jun 1, 2026 · 115K Views

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Now, the more I read Moore’s lengthy lament over Southern Baptists defending the Scriptures, the more convinced I become that we are not actually debating theology anymore. We are debating representation and demographics. We are debating whether the church will submit to the authority of Scripture or surrender itself to the same identity politics that have infected every other institution in the West.

What struck me most wasn’t even what Beth Moore said. It was what Kay Warren said.

That single sentence reveals more than all of Beth’s thousands of words combined.

“Who are half the church.”

There is the foundation and the premise of their entire argument. There is the lens through which this entire controversy is being framed.