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MAE 499 Senior Capstone Ongoing Conflict and Fallout in the SBC - Coggle…
MAE 499 Senior Capstone
Ongoing Conflict and Fallout in the SBC
Project Requirements per class instructions
MAE 499 Expected Outcomes
Distribution
Will pitch to WORLD as a feature story about ongoing coverage of the SBC and conflict therein - the challenge will be to have something fascinating enough to satisfy class requirements for novelty and interest and journalistically robust and not-clickbaity enough to satisfy WORLD's standard informational philosophy.
Has to be multimedia
Potential angles/important questions to ask
How are local churches/individuals responding to denominationwide problems?
Is trust in the church recoverable for individuals who see hypocrisy in the sexual abuse case mishandling?
Institution may be distant at the top levels but certainly reflects/casts a shadow on individuals and small churches affiliated with the SBC
Examples of churches functioning properly (Matt Chandler?) and keeping leadership accountable
What theological positions have sexual abusers violated that obligate the church to respond? In other words, it is important to highlight the fact that nothing about the Church's position or theology actually allows for this and that the abusers are acting in violation of theological principles, not within them.
What about the SBC's denominational structure presents challenges to confronting these problems? (aka they aren't Presbyterian)
How have other groups (Protestant evangelical ones, anyway) handled this type of conflict? - see PCA SJC trial of Dan Herron
Multimedia and Style
Potential interviews
Seminary heads - either collect what they've said in publicly released statements on their websites/social media accounts or have my own interviews
Small-town SBC pastors who are aware of issues like this
Jordan Stone has connections to the SBC, likely from several factions
SBC research
SBC internal politics
Faction-driven to a certain degree
There's a 9Marks faction, apparently
Larger churches are more likely to take the stance that the world is waiting to hear from them and more likely to make public statements about current events
Smaller, more local SBC churches are less likely to be tuned into denominational conflict and generally feel no pull to enter the fray in a public capacity, if they even know that there's conflict, which is most often not the case.
Southwestern Seminary (Fort Worth) - represents the more Arminianistic, antagonistic wing and they're likely to be more abrasive in response to the conflict
Southeastern? or Southern? Seminary represents the New Calvinist wing of the SBC
The SBC as a congregationalist denomination has a much lesser degree of control over aberrant behavior than other kinds of church governments - it cannot internally prosecute much in terms of theological breaches, and none of the member churches are bound by any means to any denomination-wide declarations. There is a wide range of acceptable theological belief.