Dwight McKissic, a Southern Baptist pastor (and African-American) from Arlington, Texas has an article posted at SBC Voices that accuses me of racism for my views presented in the post entitled Fergson and the Soft Bigotry of America’s Leading Evangelicals. Taking exception with my views – and the views of Southern Baptist Pastor Randy White … Read more
Michael Gerson, an op-ed columnist for the Washington Post and former speech-writer for President George W Bush is credited with coining the phrase, “The soft bigotry of low expectations.” Gerson, who also is a member of the “evangelical intelligentsia” – an elitist group of evangelical Christians who excel in various fields of academia – designed … Read more
A federal judge, this week, overruled the will of Montanans and struck down a ban on same-sex “marriage.” Reformation Montana has responded with a number of statements, including this one designed for local churches to use on their own website or local publications to articulate the views of their church on this important topic. Even … Read more
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform … Read more
Let us read the Scriptures together. Luke 12:1-2 – Under these circumstances, after so many thousands of people had gathered together that they were stepping on one another, He began saying to His disciples first of all, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. But there is nothing covered up that will … Read more
Later this month, Russell Moore – President of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethic and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) – will be attending a conference at the Vatican meant to bolster a defense of “traditional marriage.” As wonderful as it is that most Southern Baptists and the Bishop of Rome (and self-pronounced “Vicar of Christ on … Read more
In the last 48 hours or so, a clip from The Gospel Coalition of Mark Dever taking on Strange Fire crashers James McDonald and Mark Driscoll has been making its way around social media. And then, the clip disappeared from from The Gospel Coalition website. Regardless of TGC saying, “This Video Does Not Exist,” the … Read more
In early January 2013, the National Post reported that “divorce has attained an increasingly celebratory edge of late…High-profile divorce parties are being held in fancy hotel ballrooms usually reserved for nuptials.” The story from the National Post includes a quote from professional divorce party planner, Christine Gallagher. Gallagher, author of the book How to Throw … Read more
Southern Baptists break bread with gay community. Baptists strike new tone on homosexuality. Some praised the Southern Baptist Convention for softening its tone and message when discussing homosexuals. [The conference] made waves in the religious and gay communities. A shift was taking place. It feels like a new era. These are all characterizations of a … Read more
Marketing 316: 25 Traditional Heroes and the Art of Persuasion “Manufacturers of alcoholic beverages, such as beer and hard liquor, will often use the bandwagon technique of associating their product with the ‘in’ crowd.” George N. Root III, Demand Media In order to earn my business degree from the University of Georgia, I was required … Read more
Once again showing up the Baptist Press in the journalism department, Bob Allen at the Associated Baptist Press did a little research and then (**gasp!**) reported on it. If the BP could stop pumping sunshine for a moment, they could learn how this whole “reporting the news” thing works. Remember back in September when Brewton-Parker/Peter … Read more
Please excuse me for a moment, as I offer a bit of a political, theological, and cultural commentary. I was going to call this “ranting,” but a friend told me that pastors don’t rant, they proclaim, so these rants proclamations are related, as they all have to do with the same current event at a … Read more
re·vi·sion·ism noun derogatory noun: revisionism Peter Lumpkins’ posted a new article at his blog, Synergism Tomorrow, concerning a byline in A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America, written in 1813 by historian David Benedict. According to Benedict’s source, Chandler, the founding of the Baptist church in Providence under Roger Williams “…held particular redemption; … Read more
Some years ago, I was asked by a friend the following: “-When I asked about how we determine which passages of scripture get “interpretive precedence” over others — for example, say that Romans 8 keeps us from reading any kind of warning into Romans 11 — Rhology told me that … Read more
The Glen Meadow Baptist Church has invited Ergun Caner to preach at an event called “Man Church” on September 27, 2014. For those with even a cursory understanding of the repeated lies of Ergun Caner from either secular or religious news sources, we always wonder, “What is that church thinking?” We have to ask the … Read more
