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Evangelical Orthodoxy & Baptist Orthodoxy: Are The Two Identical?

    Orthodoxy is a 50s term, no longer in vogue for enlightened people.  For many this unenlightened, theological artifact calls from the grave the rotted corpse of The Inquisition to ride once again from village to village, church to church in a holy but horrifying quest to expose and execute on the spot any who dare depart from duly established dogma of the Christian church. Orthodoxy equals death to all who dissent.  That is one way some view orthodoxy.

Evangelicals & Baptists Together: A Test Case of Confusion

       In April, 1994, after approximately two years of vigorous dialog, First Things, published by The Institute on Religion and Public Life, an interreligious, nonpartisan research and education institute whose purpose is to advance a religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society, published the document entitled Evangelicals & Catholics Together:  The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium (ECT). This document may stand as the most sophisticated attempt in modern Christian history to make a universally acceptable statement from across the great theological divide begun with the 95 echoes of Luther's hammer on Wittenberg's Castle Church door.

Elmo Says: "Let's Play: What Now?": Response from Les Puryear

*Update:  Les Puryear has responded to this post.  Take a peek and see if you think he dealt with the concerns we've raised.   

Last Monday, I wrote a piece speculating a "What if?" a few more decided to "run" for President of the Southern Baptist Convention.  Since then, we've gotten confirmation from all three I mentioned about their intentions.  Al Mohler is not going to do it.  Neither is David Dockery.  In fact, a Tim Ellsworth, Director of News and Media Relations, Union University, made it clear on this site that Dr. Dockery was not in the running:

An Unapologetic Conservative for Environmentalism: It's Time to Wake Up

It's time I came out:  I am green.  See for yourself. 

With that, I am...

Peter

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SBC Outpost and Dr. Paige Patterson: Silent No Longer

    One has to give SBC Outpost credit:  after the post-Klouda loss at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, coupled with the failed attempt to make the President look like a liar by selectively parsing the depositions, Outpost went undergroud for a while keeping relatively silent. 

They posted a mere ten posts the whole month of April.  Not much news when their favorite whipping post is a dead issue.

I suppose boredom got the best of the guys over there.  So, when there is no news about something thought newsworthy, make some!  And, from the latest post, that's precisely what they did.

Elmo says "Let's Play: What If?"

        OK.  It's getting a bit ridiculous.  Here we are only four weeks out from the 2008 Southern Baptist Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana and major dissenting groups in the SBC have gone stone cold silent.  Instead of talking convention, SBC Outpost chooses to run a series of posts by its former writing whiz, Marty Duren.  Surely, his skill will pull some lost readers their way, but is that the only reason they brought in the Patriarch of Baptist Blogging?