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June 2015

June 24, 2015

Baptist white supremacy and Luther’s anti-Semitism

Protestant Christians today still revere much of Martin Luther's theology, even as we (mostly) reject...

June 24, 2015

The Southern Baptists’ White Abstract of White Principles

The founders of the Southern Baptist Convention and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary did not...

June 24, 2015

#JamesConeWasRight. #JamesBoyceWasWrong.

Southern Baptist conservative leader Al Mohler takes a forthright look at the reality of his...

May 2015

May 21, 2015

‘Erotic liberty’ — Al Mohler’s new slur is really a sad confession

The phrase "erotic liberty," as Al Mohler is trying to use it, only makes sense...

May 10, 2015

ERLC-Watch-Watch: The Watchdog blog against watchdog blogs that might keep Southern Baptist leaders accountable

One way to avoid the kind of scandal that forced Richard Land out of the...

April 2015

April 23, 2015

Inerrancy, white evangelicals, ‘and the sin of racism’

Emma Green's "Southern Baptists and the Sin of Racism" provides us a sharp image of...

January 2015

January 22, 2015

Al Mohler’s ‘erotic liberty’ rhetoric is a sinful, unbiblical, indecent, nasty lie

Lies don't get much uglier than Al Mohler's "erotic liberty vs. religious liberty" slur. This...

December 2014

December 18, 2014

The Bible used to get a lot of things wrong

If those early Southern Baptists were wrong about slavery, then they were wrong about the...

December 10, 2014

A really big wheel of cheese, Southern Baptists, the Bible, and slavery

In 1802, John Leland created the 1,234-pound Cheshire Mammoth Cheese and personally transported it 500...

December 09, 2014

White evangelicals, Southern Baptists, and #BlackLivesMatter

Southern Baptist spokesman Russell Moore's response to the killing of Eric Garner is a remarkable...

November 2014

November 29, 2014

‘Amnesty’ and amnesia on immigration from Sooners and Southern Baptists

Sen. Tom Coburn is not allowed to lecture anyone about "illegal" immigration. And Sooners are,...

November 03, 2014

A change of tone requires a change of substance: Southern Baptists learning that others can hear them talk

One phrase that came up again and again when the Southern Baptist Convention named its...

September 2014

September 05, 2014

The broken promise of biblical ‘inerrancy’

This same pattern is repeated wherever any group of "inerrantists" gets together and claims that...

August 2014

August 11, 2014

An Internet Monk’s prediction and the ‘rise of the nones’

Five years ago, Michael Spencer of Internet Monk predicted "The Coming Evangelical Collapse" -- something...

July 2014

July 27, 2014

‘I am not the monster that I once was’

Some weekend links, including: preaching on the Declaration; weighing in on third-wayers; Richard Land remembers...

July 16, 2014

Al Mohler: Standing athwart Pentecost and yelling ‘Stop!’

Al Mohler's main problem is not that he's on the wrong side of history. His...

June 2014

June 20, 2014

Smart people saying smart things (6.20)

Flannery O'Connor assesses Ayn Rand. Christian Piatt and Carolyn Dupont on churches grappling with equality....

June 17, 2014

The ivy taps on the window pane

A few things, including: Nicolae Carpathia plays a role in Iowa's Senate race. The death...

June 10, 2014

Conversion to what? Conversion from what? The unanswered questions of ‘Great Commission Baptists’

"Conversionism" is one of the defining characteristics of white evangelicalism -- part of the famous...

June 05, 2014

I am always praying through my vanities

A few things, including: Commencement commences; Molly Worthen on the incredible shrinking Southern Baptist Convention;...

May 2014

May 23, 2014

Is Owen Strachan’s Bro-formed theology heretical?

Owen Strachan is wrong to believe that God is intrinsically, actually and exclusively male. The...

April 2014

April 16, 2014

If young people are not leaving evangelicalism, then no one is joining it

Southern Baptist data maven Ed Stetzer says that "evangelicals have been relatively steady as a...

April 16, 2014

‘Having the goodwill of all the people’

Folks like Daniel Darling see a conflict between "the world hates you" and "having the...

December 2013

December 19, 2013

‘Duck Dynasty’: November wines, December whines

In the December case, a cast member from the show sat down with a reporter...

November 2013

November 19, 2013

On the whiteness of Al Mohler’s White Theology

It is impossible to understand Al Mohler's 21st-century idea of "biblical inerrancy" without understanding its...

October 2013

October 07, 2013

Southern Baptist stock photo makes pornography seem glorious

I spent 10 years as the online copy editor for a newspaper, so I appreciate...

June 2013

June 13, 2013

Alabama pastor announces his opposition to the Golden Rule

It is simply wrong -- unjust, unfair, uncouth, inhospitable, immoral, sinful -- to say to...

June 12, 2013

Al Mohler: SBC is the perfect combination of Sterling Cooper and Dunder Mifflin

New Southern Baptist "ethics" spokesman Russell Moore is every bit the culture warrior that Richard...

November 2012

November 20, 2012

‘Brother Al, you confuse evangelicalism with white, male America’

Miguel De La Torre: "Brother Al, you confuse evangelicalism with white, male America. Continuing to...