Minneapolis Interview Posted

   Yesterday, in responding to the straw-man representation of “Baptists” presented by Jonathan Bonomo, I replied to the assertion that Baptists have separated themselves from “Christendom” (I used the term Christianity, since as a good Baptist I don’t believe it is appropriate to dub something “Christian” that lacks the gospel and the Spirit and, also as a good Baptist, I’m not

   I thought this had been concluded. But I just returned from dinner to find more e-mails waiting for me, one of which demonstrates that Ergun Caner did not even bother to read the last one I sent him though he responded to it! I am simply dumbfounded, especially since Ergun’s e-mail to Tom Ascol includes lines like this: As for

Here is a paper by Dr. Rodney Decker titled “The Rehabilitation of Heresy: ‘Misquoting’ Earliest Christianity.” The paper was presented in July of this year at a faculty summit. Decker is professor of NT and Greek at Baptist Bible Seminary, Clark Summit PA. Here is also a psuedo-response and a formal response by Andy Hudson.

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   I have suggested some items for your holiday season in various posts over the past few weeks, but I thought I’d concentrate them in one spot. First, I am tremendously pleased at the response to our beginning to carry new books in our bookstore. I really think these books will be of tremendous benefit to anyone who obtains them. Four

A must read, though this section is ominous: Caner himself is stonewalling while a handful of his most outspoken supporters are doing their best to demonize his critics. If Liberty continues officially to offer sanctuary to Caner, he will eventually be able to weather the controversy without ever actually admitting any specific wrongdoing. Evangelicals—who have no stomach for protracted controversies

Stats, stats, stats…Let’s see, 3284 e-mails hit my main e-mail address in the past month. 793 were “real,” 2491 were spam. That averages 83 spam e-mails a day, seven days a week. Thankfully, my anti-spam service nailed all of them. Also averaged 26.4 “real” e-mails per day. Since I was on the road most of the month, I only wrote

   I get a weekly e-mail from John Shelby Spong (no, it isn’t personal: it’s mass produced). The things people write to him are often utterly amazing to me. But today’s was most notable. Grimes G. Slaughter (that’s what it said, honestly) wrote: I have just been fired as a Jr. High Sunday School teacher at the First Presbyterian Church in