When Southeastern Seminary president Danny Akin sat down for his recent interview, he did what politicians and bureaucrats do best—he rewrote history with a straight face.

“We never talk about global warming issues around here. Never,” he said, brushing off criticism from Megan Basham’s Shepherds for Sale and accusing her of lying about SEBTS promoting climate alarmism. He insisted the school merely hosted a “creation care” conference—a supposedly “biblical” framework—and that Basham ignored his evidence proving her claims were “false.”

Except there’s just one problem…the evidence exists, we have it, and it’s overwhelming.

Akin’s denial collapses the moment you look at the trail of events and speakers Southeastern has platformed under his leadership. In April 2021, SEBTS invited climate activist Katharine Hayhoe to lecture on “Climate Change—Facts, Fictions, and Our Faith.”

Hayhoe, a self-described “climate scientist” and evangelical, is not known for balanced inquiry or sound biblical exposition. She is known for her alarmist preaching that mankind’s carbon output is a moral crisis requiring global repentance. That’s not theology—that’s the gospel of the United Nations.

Yet Akin rolled out the red carpet for her.

This is the same Hayhoe who sat on stage at the World Economic Forum while a woman in ceremonial dress performed what looked unmistakably like a pagan earth ritual over her. Hayhoe smiled, received it, and did nothing to distance herself from it.

That moment alone should have been enough to make any Christian seminary president cringe. But instead of course correction, Akin doubled down, rebranding his platforming of such figures as a “biblical discussion on creation care.”

The phrase “creation care” itself has become the Left’s theological Trojan horse—a softer, sanitized label for the same secular climate dogma that worships the creation rather than the Creator.

Under this banner, SEBTS hosted Jonathan Moo, who told students that in order to be faithful to the gospel, Christians must take up the cause of environmentalism. Moo argued that those who neglect “creation care” do not have the full gospel. He even urged students to buy “climate credits” to offset air travel.

If that’s not the language of global warming activism, what is?

Akin’s attempt to dismiss all this as harmless diversity of thought is an extremely underhanded attempt at sophistry. These weren’t neutral academic discussions—they were full-on sermons for environmental salvation. Moo explicitly framed ecological activism as an extension of the gospel itself. Hayhoe wove climate hysteria into religious moralism.

For Akin to now claim that SEBTS “never talked about global warming” is as laughable as it is dishonest. His seminary has done more than talk about it—it has preached it, hosted it, promoted it, and legitimized it under his leadership. The irony is rich. While he scolds others for “rooting turmoil in politics, not theology,” he’s the one allowing progressive politics to masquerade as theology on his campus.

So when he looks into the camera and says, “We never talk about global warming issues around here,” the footage that follows tells a different story.