Here is how Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, under the leadership of Danny Akin, slaps a new label on the same old identity-politics, marches it into seminary life, and invites everyone to the party—except…wait for it…straight, white, men.

Black, check.
Asian, check.
Latino, check.
Native American, check.
Arab, check.
Illegal alien, check.
International foreigner, check.
Woman pursuing a doctorate, check.
Straight, white, male? Sorry — no ticket for you under our “diversity” tent.

Once upon a time Southeastern called its program the Kingdom Diversity Initiative. Now it calls it the Revelation 7:9 Initiative. Same engine, new paint job. They aren’t expanding biblical horizons nor are they rethinking theology—they’re expanding bureaucratic categories and shuffling identity checklists.

And they certainly aren’t reforming the seminary—they’re remaking it into a demographic cathedral. This is nothing more than DEI baptised in Christian branding, and it’s a house of cards masquerading as discipleship.

According to their own copy, the Revelation 7:9 Missions Initiative gives extra funding for minority students taking their first mission trip. The Revelation 7:9 Scholarship gives aid to “underrepresented cultures” and “women in a doctoral program.” They even have a “Society for Women in Scholarship” to cultivate women’s academic gifts, also known as “women preachers.”

All of these rest behind a screen of virtue—one that says we love diversity, we include everyone. But look closer. The eligibility list is a census form with a few missing squares. The optical message is we love difference—except your kind, o white man.

This is unbiblical, of course, because it discerns who is more deserving of funding by ancestry, by gender in a doctoral program, by immigration status. Scripture never delegates stewardship based on melanin, soil of origin, or genitalia.

The gospel is not a pie to be parceled by quota. It’s a banner under which sinners of every people group are equal in need and dignity. To prefer one group over another in scholarship is to institute partialism—the very thing the apostle Paul warns against when he tears down “Jew first, Gentile second” orders.

In Christ, there is no male/female, Jew/Gentile dividing line (Gal. 3:28). That means there should be no institutionalized “female doctoral student only” lane. That means a man of any ethnicity should not be barred from aid because he is male. Their program reverses “one new man” into hundreds of micro-subdivided camps.

They exclude the majority of their student body—not by accident, but by design. They invite “everyone” to the identity party, then turn to white males and say, “you’re not on the guest list.”

That is partiality in its most bare naked form.

Why does Southeastern even offer ministry doctorates to women? Is it because they want to populate the “woman doctoral student” slot in the identity scheme? The purpose of a seminary is to train pastors and elders. The Bible affirms that the eldership role is male alone (1 Tim. 2:12; 1 Tim. 3:1–7). Offering women doctoral ministry degrees is not so much a generosity as it is an institutional concession to feminism disguised as academic enrichment.

It gives women prestige inside the system while expanding the pool of those eligible for favoritism under the guise of gender equity. Meanwhile, they systematically exclude the male majority from that same favoritism.

If Southeastern wanted real unity, they would abolish identity quotas in aid and evaluate all students by biblical calling, theological maturity, evangelistic zeal—not by “under-represented culture” or womb-chromosome preferences. But they won’t, becaue that isn’t popular in our culture.