Lexington Herald-Leader: Theologically moderate Southern Baptist preachers are concerned that the Kentucky Baptist Convention, which represents nearly 2,500 churches with more than 780,000 members, is accelerating a conservative shift that could eventually mean their views would no longer be represented.
Near the center of their concerns is the Rev. Hershael York, former pastor of Lexington's Ashland Avenue Baptist Church, who was elected president of the convention.
York is a self-described theological conservative who has said he will exclusively appoint people to committees who affirm that the miracles of the Bible and other biblical accounts are literally true, what Baptists often refer to as the inerrancy of the Bible.
That worries some.
