Producer's Desk — baptists

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My latest post at Casting Stones:

As Sally Quinn reasoned in the Washington Post, if Southern Baptists are opposed to a woman being the pastor of a local church, why would they support a woman as vice president? Aren’t they being inconsistent, if not hypocritical?

Now we have David Gushee (a self-identified “moderate evangelical”) discussing the “Palin Predicament,” which he described as “how can the theological vision that women are subservient to men jibe with a Palin vice presidency?”

As a Southern Baptist, a conservative Evangelical, and a member of both the committee that formulated the Southern Baptists’ confessional statement on “The Family” in 1998 and the committee that revised the denomination’s confession of faith in 2000, I feel compelled to respond…

Read the complete column…

My latest post to Casting Stones…

During my last semi-weekly [bookstore] browse, I picked up a copy of Grand Theft Jesus, by Robert McElvaine, subtitled “The Hijacking of Religion in America.” Imagine my surprise at finding that I was mentioned on at least 10 pages, although never in a favorable light. That’s OK—everybody is entitled to their own opinion. However, as the late great Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan so famously said, “Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts.” Indeed.

I won’t bother to take issue with most of the scurrilous accusations made against me and many other Christian leaders in Grand Theft Jesus. I will, however, point out two places where the author’s facts are 100 percent wrong. I will then leave readers to draw their own conclusions about how they should judge the other alleged “facts” in this diatribe masquerading as a book…

Find out what McElvaine got wrong…

The resolutions from the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention may be found here.

Part 2:

“80% of Southern Baptist pastors say that they currently support and plan to vote for Senator John McCain (R-AZ), the presumptive 2008 Republican nominee for president. Conversely, only 1% expressed their intention to vote for Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) and 0% supported Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY)…”

Read the rest…

My latest post to Casting Stones:

“As Evangelicals, they expect to be. Indeed, if they were not a significant degree out of step with the larger culture, at least on moral issues, they would be concerned that instead of influencing the culture, they were being too influenced by it—that instead of being salt and light they were being salted and lit by the culture.”

Read the rest…

The folks at Cornwall chime in on the Southern Baptist global warming hubbub.

Dr. Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, issued the following statement today regarding the recently released “Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change…” Read the complete statement at ERLC.com

I’ve posted a new entry at the Newsweek/Washington Post On Faith blog in response to this question:

“According to a new Pew Forum survey, more than 4 in 10 Americans have switched their religious affiliation since childhood or dropped out of any formal religious group. Is this a mark of the health or sickness of American religion?” - Sally Quinn and Jon Meacham

• Read my response to this question.
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