On his post about the Waynesville Church pastor who basically kicked out Kerry voters, Mohler draws on the Church in Nazi Germany as an example of allowing nationalistic persuasions to align themselves “theologically” with the Nazis. Of course, Mohler is clueless about how that seems to better fit the Religious Right’s enthusuiastic support of Bush’s Iraq debacle. I’ll ahve more Continue Reading
Mohler shows where his loyalties lie; it’s in “correct doctrine” (most of which, is very much NOT inerrant, and not willing or maybe even capable of seeing past his fundamentalist blinders.) Crosswalk.com – Albert Mohler’s Weblog Evangelicals in the United States should watch this controversy with both interest and concern. Attacks upon the penal substitutionary understanding of the atonement are Continue Reading
Jesus Politics (Dr. Land is the New Dr. King) posts this Baptist Press article where Land is still quoting MLK…(or is it the same quote being recycled? I dunno) Richard Land is talking about the “breadth” of issues they are concerned about. The amazement we now have about how bigoted the Conservatives were in the 60’s is going to be Continue Reading
Associated Baptist Press – News for all their embracing of John Paul II’s rhetoric on life ethics regarding abortion and euthanasia, the pope had a more strenuous standard in mind when he first penned the phrase. “I think Bush and others in some ways tried to position themselves as friends of the pope or sympathetic to the pope by pushing Continue Reading
Bruce Prescott on why what I call the “Bibliolatry” folks would NEVER accept the canonical authority if that process were in today’s climate. Mainstream Baptist Anyone who knows the details about how and when the scriptures were written, collected and canonized cannot plausibly deny that tradition is also a source of authority for Christians and the churches. Amen. And further, Continue Reading
Get a load of this one from Richard Land: MSNBC – Transcript for March 27 And, by the way, Judge Greer has resigned his membership in the Southern Baptist Church. He was a member of a Southern Baptist Church in Clearwater, and he–they’ve come to a mutual agreement that he resign his membership. So…..uh….WHY was that Mr Land? Mutual??? Are Continue Reading
I often take time out from my disgust and dismay at what the Southern Baptists are doing lately, and affirm that despite all this, there remain Southern Baptists who can stand up for what is right, or refuse to be sucked in by the political maneuverings and cynical use of “family values” to keep the Religious Right placated (or in Continue Reading
This story from Bruce Precott at Mainstream Baptist reminds me of the unease I felt (and that I wan’t more outspoken, although I had always advocated staying) when the downtown Cincinnati Church I served as a seminarian in youth ministry began to look at what to do about their building and their location. I’ll always remember how an American Baptist Continue Reading
All of this (the previous posts about Peace, Jesus, and eventually the Scriptures) is form the pen (er…., the keyboard) of a graduate of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. But as you may know, I was there in the latter years before the unholy heathen secular humanists were cleansed with one stroke of the mighty SBC police-state pen (I was there Continue Reading
This article from Baptist Press highlights Mohler’s arguments against A Generous Orthodoxy. Leaders call ‘Emerging Church Movement’ a threat to Gospel – (BP) Mohler charges McLaren with speaking about clear-cut issues in an unbiblical and ambiguous manner. “A responsible theological argument must acknowledge that difficult questions demand to be answered. We are not faced with an endless array of doctrinal Continue Reading
Of course not. That would be too , well….generous. After all, orthodoxy is something one uses to narrow their brain activity and accept “the truth” as delievered to them by the theology packagers. That’s not what I think of orthodoxy. I flee from orthodoxy that is neither generous nor compassionate. Mohler’s work in the SDouthern Baptist Convention is a “chief Continue Reading
This is one of the most damaging, blinding forces at work in the Church, and it has also infected the Right Wing Politics in this country (it is , to a frightening degree, a much more common occurrence among the “fundamentalist”; either of theological or political variety; that a finite set of “truths” are correct, must always be correct, and Continue Reading
This , at once, makes a lot of sense and then , again, none at all. Welcome to Ethics Daily.com! Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, told Agape Press in November that it would be unwise for Southern Baptists to join a new ecumenical group, Christian Churches Together in the USA, being spearheaded Continue Reading
This link to a letter from the SBC’s International Mission Board, informing those who had refused to sign of their impending termination. This is old news (2002), but continues to be the operating procedure and attitude of those in power at the Southern Baptist Convention. These are not “servant” leaders, but dictators of the religious sort; the Pharisees from whom Continue Reading
Stand with Christ “Stand With Christ explores and explains the history, problems and biblical judgment of the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message revision and its uses as a force of control, internal purification, and conformity.” In his foreword, Walter Shurden has this to say: “This is a book by Baptists. Most Baptists, especially Baptists of the South, will readily recognize Continue Reading