“But I stayed away from that in the book.”īut she acknowledged the deep pain of leaving her childhood denomination while expressing her love for people in that denomination. “It would’ve been the most tempting to name names,” she said of writing about her recent experience with the SBC and with evangelical leaders. She was ridiculed by John McArthur, who told conference goers she should “stay in her place” and “she needs to go home.” She also walked away from the SBC, including Lifeway. You just have to bow down and go, ‘God, you know, you are Lord of all, and you are all-wise.’”Īlthough Moore isn’t teaching a Bible lesson, one thing is clear: She is content and thankful for what she has gone through.

And yet you can’t even picture how you would know how to minister today …. “You can know that with your head - that he has never, not for one moment, left me - but when you really take a look back and you are honest about how often he’s come through, even something that you would never, ever, ever have wanted. “When I looked back at it, and I could see how goodness and mercy had followed me all the days of my life, I thought, ‘Lord, you have never left me,’” she said in an interview. Her path includes derision and rejection for having the temerity to preach while being a woman, as well as a spiritual journey that led her to the Anglican Church. In All My Knotted-Up Life, Moore comes ready to tell her legion of readers what she has been through over the last few years. Along the way, she came to be known as perhaps the SBC’s most famous author and Bible teacher.

Moore started as a Bible teacher at First Baptist Church in Houston, which grew into a two-decade-plus relationship with the Southern Baptist Convention’s publishing house, Lifeway. Now, with the publication of her new memoir, All My Knotted-Up Life, she’s telling her story.

Beth Moore has told Bible stories for years.

All my knotted up life a memoir