In the packet all of us who attended the Covenant received--along with Prez Carter's SS lesson--was a pamphlet endorsed by Buddy Shurden and Gourley's Mercer Center for Baptist Studies and the Historical Commission, written by Bill Hull, the former provost of Southern.
It is very good. Gourley, if you can get a copy in the mail right away to Thornton and Jonathan, put two dollars on my tab and I will pay you eventually.
They need to read this. I hope to taunt CB Scott and my friend John Killian into gettin copies as I will be referencing it in a list of readings lately, spotlighting Marilynne Robison's The Tyranny of Petty Coerdion; will be spotlighting it all in my blog.
Hope you will follow up with an endorsment here, Gourley, even some highlights as we wait for Thornton and Jonathan to get their copies and join the conversation.
Would be impressed if all the churches of folks who frequent this board would get copies.
That is a very tangible accessible good that can come from the Covenant; with Gushee's several opinion pieces generated from the event accessible at opeds at abpnews.com; should easily raise the level of conversation about what it means to be Baptist in America.
Hull's closing quote from Oppenheimer 56 at Columbia was right on the money.
Mark, tell your Preacher there in Huntsville I said his Dad did a great job.