Prominent "Orthodox Baptist" Seminary Hires Female Anglican Priest to Train Baptist Pastors

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve written about Baylor’s liberal drift over the years. The school has been off my radar ever since I left the SBC. But we can now add one more proof to the pile, and it may be the most revealing yet.

Baylor has spent years insisting it remains rooted in “an orthodox, evangelical school in the historic Baptist tradition.” That phrase gets dusted off whenever donors get uneasy or critics start connecting dots. It’s a line meant to reassure—nothing to see here, folks, everything is fine, this is still your school. And yet, almost every time Baylor opens its mouth, it undercuts its own claim.

This didn’t start yesterday. It didn’t start with Truett Seminary. It certainly didn’t start with one hire.

I’ve written before about Baylor scrubbing moral language from its codes of conduct, quietly retreating from clear biblical statements on sexuality while assuring everyone that nothing essential had changed. I’ve written about the school granting legitimacy to LGBT student organizations while pretending that merely “listening” and “providing resources” wasn’t the same thing as institutional approval. I’ve written about Baylor hosting pro-homosexual speakers and events that promote outright paganism, complete with mystical language that has no place in a Christian university, much less one claiming Baptist roots.

I’ve written about Truett Seminary platforming Beth Moore and others, who have spent the better part of the last decade undermining biblical authority on gender, authority, and the church—people who are household names in progressive evangelical circles and unknown to faithful churchmen for one simple reason. They don’t teach what Baptists have historically believed.

Each time, the pattern is the same. Baylor insists critics are overreacting. Baylor assures everyone that this is about dialogue, nuance, complexity, or academic freedom. Baylor frames objections as emotional, reactionary, or driven by fear. And then Baylor takes another step in the same direction.

Which brings us to the latest incident—one that strips away the remaining pretense.