Dr. Lori J Huckaby

Assistant Professor of Sport Management, ant2PDQL,love the outdoors, and a Christ follower who has been dramatically & graciously changed forever.

[Dr. Lori J Huckaby @proflj]

@goldenEIBmic @BaptistLeaders @WilliamWolfe Your response is sad. I have no doubt we will see many of those you mention in heaven one day.

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@JimmyParker87 Is there a systematic problem of women preachers in the SBC that you all are fighting against?

[Dr. Lori J Huckaby @proflj]

@JimmyParker87 Individual churches IN the SBC - your answer seems very deflective. So how does individual churches allowing women to teach / speak affect you then, since abuse doesn’t seem to. Feels hypocritical

[Dr. Lori J Huckaby @proflj]

@MichelleDLesley @angie_mckim 😂

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@misaelergosum @BethMooreLPM 😂😂😂

[Dr. Lori J Huckaby @proflj]

@misaelergosum @BethMooreLPM Your misogyny is on full view for all to see. I am not a dude. You take a verse, interpret it the way that best suits your view, don’t consider context. I do read the Bible and have a four year degree in it. I don’t think a female should be a lead pastor. Don’t disrespect me.

[Dr. Lori J Huckaby @proflj]

@CodyLibolt So you’re claiming to be the HS … really dangerous

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@misaelergosum @BethMooreLPM Why are you so threatened?

[Dr. Lori J Huckaby @proflj]

@DavidHappe @BethMooreLPM Well, she’s not a bro … so there’s that

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@SpeechWrx @BethMooreLPM If you men would spend more time calling out your fellow SBC pastors etc for abusing women and children, maybe you’d have more credibility. You care more about women speaking about the gospel than you do of the thousands of abuse victims.

[Dr. Lori J Huckaby @proflj]

@XianImperialist @BethMooreLPM Maybe you should repent for accusing her of something she never said. You people are beyond hateful.

[Dr. Lori J Huckaby @proflj]

@BethanyMcGrew @BethMooreLPM It’s because they feel threatened - nothing more.

[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 me that the SBC as an entity was more interested in protecting shepherds than the sheep entrusted to their care. When protecting the pulpit from women becomes a far greater priority than protecting women (& children) from an abusive pulpit, something is wrong. Which has been the greater problem: women trying to become your senior pastors or pastors misusing or abusing women?

My biggest concern is that what happened with the CRT witch-hunt will happen now in regard to women. The overreach resulted in numerous pastors, teachers and professors dropping the immensely important biblical teachings against racism rather than risk being accused of CRT. I heard from pastors at that time who preached against racism and already had emails Monday morning from people in their congregation accusing them of CRT. Because the difference wasn’t clarified, they lumped all of it into the one category. The aim became: shut every mouth to shut some mouths.

I pled for SBC seminary presidents and leaders to please clarify to pastors and teachers and, thereby, to congregations & students what qualified as CRT and what indeed was the proper and deeply rooted and needed biblical approach to anti-gospel racism.

Crickets.

I see the same potential here. I have never once fought for SBC women to take over church pulpits. I have esteemed and supported the role of male senior pastors. My own pastors would tell you that. If you think I was in the SBC trying to lead a revolution against men, you are clearly not familiar with my materials. What I believed then and believe now is that God has called both men and women to serve their churches and communities and proclaim the gospel. He has poured out his Holy Spirit on men AND on women, calling them to broadcast the good news.

You have beaten the drum loudly about what women in SBC churches cannot do. So, what CAN they do? Clarity here is essential. What is a woman to do who has been gifted BY GOD to teach the Bible, especially if her church has moved to the community group model and there is no Sunday school to teach?

Here is what I see on the horizon. If you leave these matters involving women so vague that it becomes about pastoral roles/actions rather than the title of pastor, it will shift to the subjective rather than objective. I wish I was naïve enough to think that wasn’t the point to some of these leaders but, sadly, I’m not.

What if that senior pastor doesn’t allow a woman on the prayer team to pray over people at the end of the service because he deems she is acting pastorally? What if the pastor sees that a woman’s Sunday school class of WOMEN is getting, in his estimation, a little too big? Can he just decide she acting pastorally and remove her from the role? Can she counsel people with her God-given wisdom and knowledge or would she be acting pastorally? The examples could go on and on. And, of course, I realize many would not use their positions to disesteem women but surely you and I both know countless others would. God only knows how many unqualified, unloving, mean-spirited men are in pastoral positions but the obsession remains the women.

I have no desire to see SBC women leave the denomination. I loved and flourished in that denomination. I want them to be able to flourish in their spiritual gifts. I want them to be esteemed in their serving inside and outside their homes. I want them to be able to serve Jesus and proclaim his glorious gospel.

I know I’m going to get hit here. That’s fine. But you should know I will fight for them to the death. Because I love them. And, yes, whether they love me or not.

[Dr. Lori J Huckaby @proflj]

@NFLonFOX I would rather listen to Tony Romo and day over Brady. Shut up so we can enjoy the game already! #talkswaytoomuch

[Skip Bayless @RealSkipBayless]

It is ridiculous that JMU and Tulane are in the College Football Playoffs ... and Notre Dame and Texas and Vanderbilt are not. This shouldn't be about "everybody gets a chance." This should be about THE BEST 12 TEAMS IN AMERICA. Come on.

[Dr. Lori J Huckaby @proflj]

@PatMcAfeeShow thanks for streaming college game day!!!!!!

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Shout out to Cam @hockeytape for the merch! Will wear, and use it proudly!

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@hockeytape shout out to Cam Orchard for speaking to my sport management students today! @DavenportU