In the world of Bible teachers, Beth Moore is a rock star. She packs sporting arenas and big-name churches. She has written dozens of best-selling books. She has an outsize social media following.
But among some of the male leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, where she is a member, she has also become a liability. After suggesting on Twitter that she was spending Mother's Day preaching at a church — though she did not use the word "preaching" — a crowd of prominent Southern Baptist men charged after her.
"For a woman to teach and preach to adult men is to defy God's Word and God's design," wrote Owen Strachan, professor of Christian theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Mo.
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