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• Christa Brown draws the line

  
  BaptistPlanet — Authority: 146
  Commenting on charges alleging a Southern Baptist maga-church molested a 14-year-old girl, Slick wrote:It’s unfortunate that the person charged and his love interest couldn’t wait a couple of years.Christa Brown respondedWhat was done to the 14-year-old in that Florida mega-church — and what was also done to me ...
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• Kitsch, Trinkets, and the Commodification of Evangelical Christianity

  
  Matt Capps Blog — Authority: 405
  I recently heard Russell Moore say that evangelical Christianity is “one big conspiracy to sell each other stuff.” To be fair, his comment was not limited to retail, he was speaking more on a philosophical level. But, religious retail is a very large sector in our Christian subculture. I think we can learn ...
  3 days ago

• Is IMB taking missionaries in the field and people in the pews for granted?

  
  BaptistPlanet — Authority: 146
  Former Southern Baptist Convention International Mission Board (IMB) member Wade Burleson persuasively argues that the IMB has its cost-cutting strategy upside down.In a Dec. 2 blog entry A Recommendation to IMB Administrators and Trustees in the Midst of a Financial Shortfall, he reviews the IMB plans to cut as many ...
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• Huckabee the Dominionist theology candidate?

  
  BaptistPlanet — Authority: 146
  “Unfit for command” writes Frank Schaeffer about former Arkansas governor and GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee. At Brad Blog, the former Religious Right leader says:It is clear that Huckabee is unfit for any national office and was unfit to ever be a governor. It is also clear that his record of insane ...
  4 days ago

• Southern Baptist Convention Still Has a Hard on For Gays

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 444
  I really wonder about the emotional/mental health of Christianists like the SBCs Richard Land (pictured at left) who have an absolute obsession with LGBT citizens and seem Hell bent to deprive us of civil rights and benefits that other Americans receive. Perhaps Land - like a number of the hysterical homophobes of ...
  5 days ago

• Ten Books for you to read in 2010

  
  Matt Capps Blog — Authority: 405
  One of the greatest things I learned in seminary was “ who to read; and who not to read .” In fact, I would argue that my most important spiritual and academic developments while in seminary came from reading good books. For me it’s in the process of wrestling with an idea, trying to prove a point, attempting to ...
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• Our dollars are great; your percentages are lousy

  
  BaptistPlanet — Authority: 146
  The Southern Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Resurgence Task Force continues its pattern of answering questions with language that confuses and frustrates.Ronnie Floyd, chairman of the task force, answered 12 questions after he spoke at the Illinois Baptist Pastors’ Conference, according to a report in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Church planting: Waste or salvation?

  
  BaptistPlanet — Authority: 146
  Church planting has become a main branch of the Southern Baptist Convention evangelism strategy, but a North Carolina pastor who ran for SBC president last year has raised serious questions about whether it should be.Les Puryear, pastor of Lewisville Baptist Church, using statistics complied by the SBC’s North ...
  2 weeks ago

• The future of the Southern Baptist Convention

  
  "the voice of one crying out in suburbia..." — Authority: 429
  I ran across a very interesting article recommended by Tom Ascol, written by Danny Akin and Bruce Ashford at Between the Times . The topic was the future of the Southern Baptist Convention and there are a lot of important questions asked, sacred cows tipped, oxen gored and conversations started! Here are a couple of ...
  2 weeks ago

• What’s Missing Is Tears

  
  Ministry of Reconciliation — Authority: 110
  I have always deeply respected Tullian Tchividjian, the grandson of Billy Graham, and the now pastor of the late James Kennedy’s church.In the reading of Tullian’s blog today, I read these words:Grieving anger is far different from the kind of anger commonly associated with Christians. Lots of people think of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Orphan Sunday: Our church and Orphan Care

  
  Matt Capps Blog — Authority: 405
  “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.” - Jesus The very existence of orphans shows us that something has gone terribly wrong in creation. It’s been estimated that there are 143 million orphans in the world. Just for perspective, that’s almost half the population of the United States. In ...
  2 weeks ago

• Broadway Baptist skips BGCT for the ‘best interests’ of all

  
  BaptistPlanet — Authority: 146
  Broadway Baptist Church, foregoing conflict and asserting its Baptist autonomy, sent no messengers to the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting, which convenes today.Messengers are delegates, and had it sent any to the Nov. 16-17 meeting in Houston, the church’s approach to homosexual members would ...
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• LEADERSHIP FROM THE BUSINESS WORLD

  
  Biblical Church Growth — Authority: 110
  Leadership has become a big deal for me not only in my role as dean of the Billy Graham School, but also as my denomination (the Southern Baptist Convention) faces transitioning leadership at multiple levels. I am particularly burdened about reaching out to and working with young leaders who are the future of our ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Gospel of Mark

  
  Matt Capps Blog — Authority: 405
  Mark’s account of the gospel is action oriented. Mark shifts scenes rapidly. The Greek word euthys which means “immediately” is the standard link [2] between the different scenes of Jesus life and ministry. “The Gospel of Mark is a succinct, unadorned yet vivid account of the ministry, suffering, death, ...
  3 weeks ago

• BSCNC shrinks budget, pushes evangelism

  
  Baptists Today Blogs — Authority: 121
  This past year, for the first time in many years, I didnt attend the annual meeting of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina (BSCNC). I didnt feel particularly welcome, for one thing: messengers at the previous years meeting had voted to eliminate any options for supporting the Cooperative Baptist ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Literary Nature of The Gospel Accounts

  
  Matt Capps Blog — Authority: 405
  When reading or teaching through the gospel accounts one must recognize their literary distinctiveness. One important characteristic about the genre ‘gospel’ is that superscriptions to these historical narrative accounts are worded “the gospel according to ”, add the authors name. (Matthew, Mark, Luke, or ...
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• When the inerrant Bible collides with Southern Baptist seminary doctrine

  
  BaptistPlanet — Authority: 146
  The woman Junia , whom St. Paul calls "of note among the apostles" ( KJV , RSV ) in the Epistle to the Romans 16:7, is the subject of blogs and scholarly articles considering her genter. She has inspired at least one scholarly and one popular book affirming her womanhood.
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• Conservative Evangelicals and Immigration

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 651
  A few weeks ago, I sat and listened attentively as a series of American religious leaders explained to several members of a U.S. Senate subcommittee the reasons our nation needs comprehensive immigration reform. While Congress might expect support for immigration reform…
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• Incurable Southern Baptist demographic shrinking disease

  
  BaptistPlanet — Authority: 146
  Doomed by demographics, The [Southern] Baptists Shrink in numbers, writes historian Andrew Michael Manis in the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life’s thrice-yearly journal Religion in the News.The standard Southern Baptist cure for this five-decade-old wasting disease is “increased ...
  4 weeks ago

• Things Not Brought Out When Glorifying The Conservative Resurgence Pt. 2: Truth Or Fiction, Chronological Timeline Of The Takeover

  
  Ministry of Reconciliation — Authority: 110
  1976: Paul Pressler, a Houston judge, and Paige Patterson, thenpresident of Criswell College in Dallas, met in New Orleans andplanned a political strategy to elect a president who would nominatelike-minded people to the Convention’s Committee on Committees.This Committee would nominate like-minded people to the ...
  4 weeks ago

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