Thinking evangelicals and Baptists leave Dobson, Land and SBC
Frances Fitzgerald makes that excruciatingly clear in the current print issue only of the New Yorker Magazine.
With references to the gamut from Wheaton College's Mark Noll, now at Notre Dame; to David Gushee who unlike other acquaintances of mine took a strong look at Al Mohler and Francis Schaeffer and puked (see his comments on Mohler's Covenant at SBTS in 94); this article lays it out clear.
Matthew Morgan and one of his brothers saw the light a long time ago. Whether or not blue collar baptists, whose heart Will Campbell has always known, will be influenced by folks who understand the gravity of the moment; I guess we will see.
It is a perilous political moment in America and there is a lot of confusion. The Baptist witness, the priesthood of the believer, is better incarnated by the House church Pastor in China whose testimony on PBS Frontline World, shines as bright in his time as Truett shone in his, and John Leland and Will Campbell in their time; that Pastor better incarnates a Baptist witness than many in the hamlets and suburbs of Alabama where it takes up a lot of money and energy in majoritarian throttle since the Civil War on through the George Wallace of Rick Perlstein's Nixonland.
But I'm talking in parables now, and lot of people have shouted in my face, some church women even cussing, I shoulda shut up long time ago.
Here is a link to Fitzgerald, hoping some of you have the character to read it and do something about it.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/30/080630fa_fact_fitzgerald
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/6/24/0270/34412
"I'm the only sane {person} in here." Doyle Hargraves, Slingblade
And here is how it is playing out on Scott Hunter's blog at his Church in Orlando. I could see Matthew Morgan on staff at that church some day.
Maybe they have a library there where I would be welcome.
http://blogs.northlandchurch.net/2008/06/24/joel-c-hunter-featured-in-the-new-yorker-magazine/#comment-458
With references to the gamut from Wheaton College's Mark Noll, now at Notre Dame; to David Gushee who unlike other acquaintances of mine took a strong look at Al Mohler and Francis Schaeffer and puked (see his comments on Mohler's Covenant at SBTS in 94); this article lays it out clear.
Matthew Morgan and one of his brothers saw the light a long time ago. Whether or not blue collar baptists, whose heart Will Campbell has always known, will be influenced by folks who understand the gravity of the moment; I guess we will see.
It is a perilous political moment in America and there is a lot of confusion. The Baptist witness, the priesthood of the believer, is better incarnated by the House church Pastor in China whose testimony on PBS Frontline World, shines as bright in his time as Truett shone in his, and John Leland and Will Campbell in their time; that Pastor better incarnates a Baptist witness than many in the hamlets and suburbs of Alabama where it takes up a lot of money and energy in majoritarian throttle since the Civil War on through the George Wallace of Rick Perlstein's Nixonland.
But I'm talking in parables now, and lot of people have shouted in my face, some church women even cussing, I shoulda shut up long time ago.
Here is a link to Fitzgerald, hoping some of you have the character to read it and do something about it.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/30/080630fa_fact_fitzgerald
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/6/24/0270/34412
"I'm the only sane {person} in here." Doyle Hargraves, Slingblade
And here is how it is playing out on Scott Hunter's blog at his Church in Orlando. I could see Matthew Morgan on staff at that church some day.
Maybe they have a library there where I would be welcome.
http://blogs.northlandchurch.net/2008/06/24/joel-c-hunter-featured-in-the-new-yorker-magazine/#comment-458
posted by foxofbama | 12:20 PM
2 Comments:
Thanks for this blog. I have been reading about this shift, and I think it has been a long time in coming. Finally, the evangelical segment of the Christian church will focus on the real needs of the world, not on the strict ideologies of a few. As a "non-evangelical" I can finally find common ground with this group.
What does Will Campbell say?
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