Recently Marty Duren called on the media to stop using church to describe Westboro Baptist Church. He took a bit of flack for suggesting what was and is gong on inside the Topeka compound as more than simple aberrations that could be counted as minor, or tertiary distinctions … Continue reading
Internecine squabbles are blood sport. It appears some care little about collateral damage in the process. I recently wrote a piece wherein I found it incredulous that a campaign is waged to discredit one person by casting suspicion on the realities of another’s personal struggle and abuse.
I realize … Continue reading
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SBC Voices’ Dave Miller reported the announced planned retirement of Dr. Richard Land. I write planned retirement for it will not be effective until the date that marks Land’s 25 years of service to the ERCL – to the day in October 2013. We need time for a … Continue reading
I rarely post on Sunday. There are more important things on my mind. I ran across this post by Addie Zierman over at Rachel Held Evans blog late yesterday. Her Guest Post, in Held’s Women of the Gospels Series, offered one more reflection on the Mark 5 text … Continue reading
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Ruled Out of Order or, A Pusillanimous SBC Part 3
I have never been to an RNC or a DNC but I have been to several Annual Meetings of the Southern Baptist Convention. I suspect the Republican and Democratic National Conventions are not too dissimilar from the SBC Annual Meeting or vice versa. In all three meetings, I am … Continue reading
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