John Meacham of Newsweek magazine moderated an informal debate between Southern Baptist Pastor Rick Warren and atheist Sam Harris. The conversation was wide-ranging and free-wheeling.
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Gays at Southern Seminary?
There were indeed some gays at Southern seminary yesterday, but none who were matriculating. They were all protesters from the homosexual activist groups Soulforce and the Fairness Campaign (pictures below). Soulforce is known for holding demonstrations at colleges and universities that have policies against homosexuality. They brought their movable feast to Southern yesterday because of Dr. Albert Mohler’s recent, controversial essay, “Is Your Baby Gay?” The Associated Press has the report:
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American Paganism
“The evidence that a culture is descending into paganism is always manifest in the body count. A pagan culture is always a culture of death. This was true in the ancient Near East and it is true in modern America. . . Today the unborn, the partially born, and the handicapped newly born are daily sacrificed to the false gods of ‘choice,’ ‘autonomy,’ ‘self-fulfullment,’ ‘compassion,’ and ‘liberation,’ on stainless steel altars, by priests robed in surgical whites, in storefront temples, run by the keepers of the cult, like Planned Parenthood.” —Robert P. George, “Un-American Idols: on the Foolproof Test for Paganism” Touchstone (March 2007), p. 15 The rest of Robert…
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The Atheist Debate
Thanks to Justin Taylor for alerting us to the video of a debate between Alister McGrath (theist) and Peter Atkins (atheist). Alister McGrath is Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford University, and Peter Atkins is Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University. Debate: “Darwin and humanity: Should we rid the mind of God? (2007)”
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Jimmy Carter Says Mormons Are Christians
In his 1976 campaign for President, Jimmy Carter made much of his being a “born-again” Christian. Many of his fellow Southern Baptists in the solid (but softening) south were delighted to hear what sounded like a plain confession of evangelical faith. But that was then, and this is now.
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More Misunderstanding of Mohler
The media’s misunderstanding of Dr. Albert Mohler’s so-called “gay baby” article continues. Harold Meyerson has this to say in today’s Washington Post: Mohler’s deity, in short, is the God of Double Standards: a God who enforces the norms and fears of a world before science, a God profoundly ignorant of or resistant to the arc of American history, which is the struggle to expand the scope of the word “men” in our founding declaration that “all men are created equal.” This is a God who in earlier times was invoked to defend segregation and, before that, slavery. This is a sad article and ought to elicit our prayers, not scorn.
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Bob Jones on American Idol?
Well, Bob Jones himself isn’t competing on American Idol, but a former student of Bob Jones University is. Chris Sligh (a.k.a. “Fro Patro”), the son of missionaries who spent much of his childhood overseas, is doing his best to become the next American Idol. Yet some of Sligh’s Christian homies aren’t giving him a shout out while he does it.
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Mohler in The Washington Post
The Washington Post covers the controversy stemming from Dr. Mohler’s “Gay Baby” blog. “The Problem, in A Fundamental Nutshell: ‘Is Your Baby Gay?'” – Washington Post
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Mohler’s Gay-Baby Article
The Associated Press has been reporting on the response to Dr. Albert Mohler’s essay, “Is Your Baby Gay?” As the AP reports, two arguments from Dr. Mohler’s article have been particularly controversial:
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Dobson on Fire about Global Warming
Dr. James Dobson has been pretty hot lately about the issue of global warming. It’s not that he’s for global warming; it’s that he is resisting efforts to make global warming a signature issue for evangelicals. Dobson’s letter to the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) gets right to the point: We have observed that Cizik and others are using the global warming controversy to shift the emphasis away from the great moral issues of our time, notably the sanctity of human life, the integrity of marriage and the teaching of sexual abstinence and morality to our children (source).