Here’s a link to a book, sold by Smith and Helwys, the publishing arm of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, on how the present Southern Baptist Leadership, and their “founders”, betrayed the gospel by inventing a new one, based on a lot of “old religion” and fundamentalistic politics that put personal and “sectarian” gain over the ethic of Christ. The Betrayal Continue Reading
No pun intended (as in “Army Boots”). This Southern Baptist Church is participating in the abomination of desolation. (the story source here) I found this intitial link via Mike James, and then saw that it had created discussion on Daily Kos With the Southern Baptists tendency to “kick out” Churches who they consider to be “renegade” (ie. the Churches that Continue Reading
Bruce Prescott of Mainstream Baptist has an astute observation of the “backroom strategizing” that Southern Baptists fell victim to in the 80’s and 90’s (and no doubt started in the 60’s and 70’s), and how this same scenario and some of the same people are involved in the Council for National Policy, (a group written on by Sarah Posner — Continue Reading
Jesus Politics points to this article at the Baptist Studies Bulletin about another former Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Professor I had, Glenn Hinson. Hinson is reviewing a book , A Pilgrimage of Faith: My Story, by Henlee Hulix Barnette, an ethics professor and theologian whom I wrote a paper on while taking Baptist Theologians in Historical Perspective (I had requested Continue Reading
NOw here’s a great no-contest. MOhler vs McLaren. MOhler makes himself and his empire of holier-than-thou and certainly “a lot smarter-than-thou” out to be the gaurdians of truth; and again is amazingly clueless. Crosswalk.com – Albert Mohler’s Weblog McLaren intends to be provocative, explaining that this reflects his “belief that clarity is sometimes overrated, and that shock, obscurity, playfulness, and Continue Reading
These thoughts from Glenn Stassen, who I had for Christian Ethics at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1979, on how far the Southern Baptists have gone in becoming a nationalist Church (at least when Righwing politics is in charge) found this link via Jesus Politics Greg Moses: Taking Jesus Back from the Hijackers Used to be a time, Stassen reminds Continue Reading
MY son’s friend invited him to a Church Youth Lock-in at his Church, which ius the local Southern Baptist Church. When I picked him up in the morning when the event was closing down, he asked “Can we go to that Church?”, and I was telling him that I am all for his being involved with a Church Youth Group, Continue Reading
A commenter in a previous post where I take issue with some Mohler attitude, objects that SBTS is owned by the SBC, which has the right to require that the programs and professors of SBC institutions actually affirm the mission statements and abstracts of principles of the seminaries themselves. That was the issue at that time. Oh yeah, they have Continue Reading
Crosswalk.com – Albert Mohler’s Weblog Here Mohler is praising an article in the New Republic by Peter Beinart which asserts that the Democratic party has been : “taken over by Michael Moore and MoveOn.org and is now in the hands of leaders who refuse to support the war on terror and have instead associated the party with far left positions Continue Reading
Wow. When I wrote about hearing of the death of Roy Honeycutt last week, I spoke of Duke McCall, the man Honeycutt replaced as President in 1978 when McCall had health problems (heart related), as if he were (as I had assumed) already dead. But the article below mentions him, now 90, and he’s been the president of the Baptist Continue Reading
The previous article makes several references to Honeycutt’s successor, Al Mohler, and his constant dragging of the Seminary in Louisville into the theological dark ages with him and all his “takeover-witch-hunt” cronies in the leadership of the SBC in the 80’s. Ethics Daily continues: After Garland’s firing, Mohler and the seminary trustees launched a study to determine whether the seminary Continue Reading
Carlos (at Jesus Politics) points to an article on Ethics Daily remembering Roy Honeycutt, former President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (which he became while I was an MDiv student there in 1980 when Duke McCall became unable to continue just before his death). Welcome to Ethics Daily.com! The seminary’s position on women in ministry changed abruptly after Honeycutt’s retirement Continue Reading
Seems like more and more are connecting to Al Mohler’s blog as a source of “blog fodder”….add Icthus to the list. Myself, as a former Southern Baptist and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, I’ve been wincing at Mohler-isms for 10 years (or whenever it was I first started seeing things written by him) ….and blogged quite a few times since the Continue Reading
Carlos at Jesus Politics posts another Al Mohler “heresy” gem In this case, an example of precisely what Bonhoeffer faced in his German Church, a Church rapidly descending into nationalistic irrelevance to the cause of Christ. Indeed, an idolatry of the state. Mohler and his fellow Southern Baptist Convention leaders exemplify a neutering of the gospel, and the construction of Continue Reading
I have menetioned these guys several times before. I met Robert Parham and Cliff Vaughn last year (I visited their offices here in Nashville in the summer of 2002). At that time, I was looking for some work to do, and checked with them to see what they thought of blogging. Since then, I have been the beneficiary of their Continue Reading