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The Great Divorce: The Church and the GOP
After a long, frustrating courtship with the GOP, Richard Land, then President of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention declared, ”The go-along, get-along strategy is dead. ‘No more engagement. We [conservative Christians] want a wedding ring, we want a ceremony, we want a consummation … Continue reading
Read MoreWhose History? Whose Independence? An Interview with Alan Cross
Healthy conversation and debate suffers from the 24/7 news cycle. The shooting of the Charleston 9 stirred deep conversations about the racial history in the United States. While the conversations and fallout continue, several SCOTUS decisions threaten(ed) to move the important discussions about racial issues to the back burner. … Continue reading
Read MoreGone Is the Prophetic Once You Achieve the Center or, Baptists21 and Pastor Wiley Rice
We must be nearing the Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. A kerfuffle broke out.… Continue reading
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Only Everyone Else (In the SBC) Should Turn the Other Cheek
Not once when watching a cartoon bullfight did the animators expose the truth of the event. It wasn’t a fair fight. At least it wasn’t when I went to my first and only bullfight in Madrid in about 2003. … Continue reading
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