http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ ... story.htmlBriefly he gets Balmer on Billy Graham right.
But in one key paragraph, though Yardley has some strong reservations about Balmer's take on religious right, he shows a poor understanding of what happened in the Southern Baptist Convention.
That continues to be loaded and enough of a thicket for folks like Lee Saunders and William Thornton of this board, to 30 years after continue to be in the fog on the matter. And they were much closer to it all than Jonathan Yardley.
Let the conversation continue. If N.C.'s Joe Ferguson is still living he can help as can Ellen Rosenberg. Even the Post's Tom Edsall coulda helped his former colleague Yardley with his stout but misbegotten paragraph, dismissing Wyerich as little more than Paul Pressler's answer to Jimmy Allen and James Dunn. (they weren't named) but we Baptists know that story, the few of us who understand it rightly.
Stay tuned.
Hope informed folks engage Balmer's two upcoming workshops at the Atlanta CBF. I hope to be there to facilitate as much misunderstand as possible and hound whatever ignorance presents itself (ha).