Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 21st, 2009
You’ve probably seen the news that Jimmy Carter has ended his 60 years of involvement with the Southern Baptist Church to protest the Baptist practice of “quoting a few carefully selected Bible verses” to justify cruelty to women. I myself broke with the Southern Baptist Church 25 years ago when they began systematically persecuting Kevin [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 23rd, 2009
Proselytization is a two-way street. So pity (a little bit) the poor attendees of the Southern Baptist Convention, who are going to have to deal with evangelization from PETAns: Among the demonstrators who will be standing outside the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville as the SBC opens its two-day meeting on Tuesday will be one [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 26th, 2009
If you have a Google News Alert for “LifeWay Christian Resources, the Southern Baptist Convention’s publishing arm” like I do, you probably saw the large number of articles describing how sales of new baptisms slipped again in 2008. (I was unable to find any good statistics on sales of pre-owned baptisms.) And if you are [...]
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