Conservative Baptists orchestrated a coordinated takeover of the SBC beginning in 1979

Evidence

By 1979, conservative Southern Baptists’ sense of cultural crisis was acute, and they set out to take over the denomination. Paige Patterson, Paul Pressler, W. A. Criswell, and other like-minded pastors and laymen had hatched a plan that involved electing conservatives to the presidency of the SBC and controlling strategic committee appointments. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 248

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘going for the jugular’ takeover prefigures the Trump-era politics of masculine force Du Mez links later; ties to the book’s continuity argument. — connects to: Right-wing takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention proceeded by top-level coup — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 283