Her popularity as a Bible teacher has only grown since then.Īs the author of the cover story, Sarah put it, "her stories about her big hair and self-tanner keep her audience in stitches, but also reveal her unmistakable rootedness in Southern Baptist culture. And actually you probably realized it was 2010 once I said, "several snap pictures with their cameras and cellphones." At that time already some 666,000 had attended Moore's Living Proof Live conferences and millions had read her books. So began Sarah Pulliam Bailey's cover story for us at CT on Beth Moore in 2010. "Anybody just need a fresh dose of Jesus?" Moore yells. More than 8,000 women from teenagers to senior citizens have traveled from 30 states and shelled out $60 each to watch Moore open her Bible live and in person. It's the largest crowd the Springfield, Illinois venue has hosted, topping Elton John's appearance over a decade ago. Several snap pictures with their cameras and cellphones. Morgan Lee: Alright, well, let us get into our topic:Īs Beth Moore walks onto the convention center stage, the crowd erupts into screams and cheers. They're talking about all kinds of things from race to women to sex abuse to missions and evangelism, and I'm just here to kind of be a fly on the wall. There are about 8,000 people here for the meeting. Sarah Pulliam Bailey: I’m at the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting. Her real claim to fame, however, is the year she worked as a reporter and editor for Christianity Today. She covers how faith intersects with everything-everything-including politics, culture, and education, issues such as same-sex marriage, poverty, abortion, and the environment. She's a reporter for the Washington Post. Mark Galli: We're speaking with Sarah Pulliam Bailey. Quick to Listen is produced by Morgan Lee and Cray Allred JTranscript Subscribe to Mark’s newsletter: The Galli Report Subscribe to Quick to Listen on Apple Podcastsįollow our guest on Twitter: Sarah Pulliam Bailey Pulliam Bailey joined digital media producer Morgan Lee and editor in chief Mark Galli to discuss how Beth Moore came to hold this platform, when she began to speak out on more controversial topics, and what this means for communities she’s part of. So I think she has a big voice, but she's not just dependent on the Southern Baptist Convention.” And if she were to somehow shift in her views, it would be a big deal. … She doesn't have just Southern Baptist fans it stretches far beyond that. “She's funny and she's charismatic and quick. “I think a lot of evangelical women look to her for shaping their theological views, for understanding how to study the Bible, but then also just in general,” said Sarah Pulliam Bailey, a religion reporter for the Washington Post who wrote the Moore cover story. Yet her influence shows no sign of waning. Earlier this month she also provoked another controversy with some Southern Baptist leaders when discussing how she would be preaching at an upcoming church. Earlier this year, she tweeted that in 2016, for the first time, she was able to confront the abuses and misuses of power she had seen and experienced in the Southern Baptist denomination. Her preferred platform has been Twitter, where she has nearly a million followers. More recently, Moore has also begun speaking out on politics, sexual abuse, and the misogyny that she has experienced in the church. In August 2010, CT published a cover story on Beth Moore, “Why Women Want Moore: Homespun, savvy, and with a relentless focus on Jesus, Beth Moore has become the most popular Bible teacher in America.” Intensely popular among evangelical women when the story was published nearly a decade ago, Moore, a Southern Baptist, has increasingly drawn the attention of American Christians at large.
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