Black pastor leaves Southern Baptists over critical race theory
A megachurch pastor pursuing a doctorate at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, announced in a published article on December 16 that he was withdrawing from his degree program and severing his church’s affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention over a recent statement by its seminary presidents on critical race theory.
The move by Ralph D. West, founder and pastor of Church Without Walls in Houston, is evidence of more backlash against the November 30 statement by six SBC seminary presidents denouncing critical race theory and intersectionality.
The presidents, all six of them White men, issued the statement saying that critical race theory is “incompatible” with the denomination’s central affirmation.
