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A Land Beyond or, How the ERLC May Problematize Inerrancy
A crushing blow to inerrancy in the SBC will likely come on June 1st. Since 1979 the accuracy and authority of the Scriptures under the rubric of inerrancy has provided access to the SBC Speakeasy. In...
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If Not a PAC or Lobby Then What or, One More Reason to Disband the ERCL in...
The ever gutsy Dave Miller over at SBC Voices got hammered for suggesting we no longer need the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. Some raced in to tout the...
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Guest Post Over at SBC Voices
Dave Miller left for Taiwan. Jeff Musgrave is now Deputy in Charge at SBC Voices. I offered my series Ruled Out of Order as guests posts to help fill the gap left by Dave “Stephen King of Voices”...
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Learning from the Wilsons or, Scanning Is Different from Reading
I am bracing myself. Jeff notified me SBC Voices would be running another guest post derived from my series, Ruled Out of Order. The stand alone post carries the title, Needed: Prophets Not Protectors....
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Trampling the Abused for Self-Vindication or, Stop Making It About You
Internecine squabbles are blood sport. It appears some care little about collateral damage in the process. I recently wrote a piece wherein I found it incredulous that a campaign is waged to discredit...
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Maybe We Are Stuck or, Godin, Block, and the SBC
Dave Miller cannot escape Calvinism no matter how hard he tries. He notes that less than 48 hours of deciding to steer clear of the subject he found himself posting about the recently formed advisory...
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Race Is No Longer an Issue? or, Maybe My SBC Friends Will Rethink Our Progress
Recently Dwight McKissic raised issue with a Texas Baptist pastor who was against Mitt Romney before he was for him. He noted that once Romney won the nod for the Republican Presidential nomination,...
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Religious Unity Spurred by Violence?
Not so fast. Dr. Dwight McKissic offered a sermon focused on how to help young black men in his congregation think through their own choices in the wake of the Zimmerman verdict. What Jesus informed...
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What Does Africa Have to Do with Forth Worth?
Dave Miller remarked in the comment thread of a recent post at SBC Voices, “Blogging attracts the most strident voices. The SBC is never as divided as blogging.” Herding the cats, which has at times...
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When Interpretation Fails or, Trump-eting Greatness?
Evangelicals are the biggest Liberals. So says David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw. They take up a discussion of Inerrancy and Evangelicals at one point during the conversation. Maybe they are being...
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Tournament Time . . . Really?
Some friends over at SBC Voices are hosting SBC Blog Madness. I know , some of you think it madness that I even reference the SBC. Now here’s the deal, though I have recently written a couple of pieces...
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The Battle for the SBC Empire Posted at SBC Voices
Dave Miller over at SBC Voices re-posted a piece I offered here last week. In related news, Scot McKnight provides a guest post, Rob Bell and C.S. Lewis, where Jeff Cook calls attention to much the...
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Minority Voices Are Like Minor Prophets – They Get to the Point Quicker
Southern Baptists are a kerfuffle waiting to happen. Despite great volunteers who scatter the planet to aid in the aftermath of natural disasters, it only takes one comment to create an occasion to...
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Vote for Me – Really
Dave Miller and those over at SBC Voices included me and this blog in their 2012 Blog Madness, dubbed Blue Collar Blog Madness. Someone must have nominated me as the lead up to this year’s contest...
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My Campaign Coordinators – Down to the Wire
My friend Jeff once told me, “All great men have two girls.” Now I understand his bias stemmed from the fact he is Daddy to two daughters. I also know he got this line from another of our friends who...
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