Since When Do Confessional Protestants Pay Attention to Baptists?
From Paleo Protestant Pudcast by Darryl Hart
July 25, 2025 · 1h 3m
About this episode
The episode discusses the interactions and political dynamics between Lutherans and Baptists, focusing on denominational controversies and church politics.
To put the question even more pointedly, with lots of stereotyping to go round, when do Lutherans of German descent who settled mainly in the northern mid-western states pay attention to Baptists in the South? This was the subject of the recent recording when co-hosts, Korey Maas (Lutheran), Miles Smith (Anglican), and D. G. Hart (Presbyterian) discussed Scott Yenor's article on what Southern Baptist conservatives might learn from Missouri Synod Lutherans about "the left's" attack on denominational institutions. Part of the discussion involved the Southern Baptist Convention's place in conservative politics and the New Calvinist movement. Another part involved the dark side of church politics -- how much officers and members need to strategize and organize to defeat opponents within a communion where everyone is supposed to agree. Articles the co-hosts mentioned included: Korey Maas on the controversy in the LCMS over Concordia Seminary, St. Louis; and the place of civil rights politics in the LCMS controversy . For any Presbyterians who might see parallels in the Lutheran and Baptist controversies with the Presbyterian conflict of the 1920s, especially over control of…
People in this episode
Host: D. G. Hart
Guests: Korey Maas, Miles Smith
Topics covered
- Lutherans and Baptists
- denominational politics
- Southern Baptist Convention
- New Calvinist movement
- church politics
- seminary control
- civil rights politics
Keywords
- Lutherans
- Baptists
- denominational institutions
- Southern Baptist Convention
- New Calvinism
- church politics
- seminary control
- civil rights
Sponsors
National Public Radio
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Southern Baptist Convention, Missouri Synod Lutherans
Books & works: Wait Wait Don't Tell Me
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