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You can post stray links until Jesus comes but not the other junk, stephen. Give it a little thought.

He lives in his own fantasy world limited by his own illusions still I like him too for the couple times a year he surprises me. And his blog is the only way these days I have of keeping up with Jerry Vines.

The point is Randall Balmer affirms the points I consistently make about the netherworld of Pressler' and Jesse Helms network which Balmer in this essay makes timely and accentuates. Thornton keeps deleting me when I agree with the leading religion scholars of our time.

As for Thornton's concern for my soul and church life he doesn't know what he is talking about. When he can make arrangement so set up an appointment with the Pasotr of the church in Collinsville, Mark Wilson of the Auburn University Democracy Project, the librarian Jennifer Wilkins and Martha Barksdale then I can give him a report of being in church where I belong next Sunday. I forgot Jackie and Donnie Myers the deacons the women sicced on me in the first place, yet they were in the minority vote to keep me in the fellowship

Thanks Keith, for reading the article

So, you are or aren't n a church on Sunday's? I recall all the liberry, gospel dog stuff.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... story.html

Jeremiah Wright was correct: "The chickens are coming Home to Roost!!!""

Michael Gerson a few days ago in the Washington Post. Not as strong as Balmer or my motif of the last 25 years but he is coming around.

Not that really is any of Thornton's business but I was in church last Sunday; got my picture taken with three Furman theologians and Facebook to prove it; and July 3 I will be at the Liberty Baptist Church in Henegar, Alabama with 200 of my best friends from across the World singing the Sacred Harp. you should come over Willie Boy, David's Lament for Absalom should resonate with you. And most likely I will be able to introduce you to a gggg granddaughter of Jonathan Edwards world. a perennial from Yale!!!!

That is a pretty good article from the Post. It contains no support whatsoever for Stephen's name dropping rabbit trails that associate the rise of the conservative resurgence in the SBC to any hot button issue that he happens to be fixated on at the moment. However, it does a good job of documenting many of the quirks of the alignment of conservative Evangelicals with the Republican party, despite the latter's inconsistency in policy and practice with most of what Evangelicals believe. But I think what is happening, visible in the SBC of late, is that many of the current generation of leaders weren't as connected to the conservative, activist type politics of the 70's and 80's, and are seeing the inconsistency between a conservative approach to interpretation of the Bible, and the outcomes of conservative, tea-party type politics, and are coming down on the side of their Biblical perspective.

It's interesting to see the perspective and characterization of support. Evangelicals turned out at the polls in record numbers in 2012, despite the moaning about all of them staying home. The percentages look high, 89% supported Romney, for example, but those figures generally put African American evangelicals in a different statistical category of "historically black" denominations. Trump appears to be getting between 35% and 45% of Evangelical support, maybe a shade higher which, while strange, is nowhere near the levels that any Republican before him, back to Reagan, had.

A good proportion of the SBC's new churches are ethnic/minority. I'm unclear on exactly what the NBC means to the CBF. Is it an event? A series of cooperative ventures? Any financial ties?

Ed: Just discovered this while at the CBF Assembly last week:

NBC Summit 2016
Journeying to Covenant Community

September 14-16, 2016
Downtown Hilton
255 Courtland St NE, Atlanta, GA
$125 General Registration Fee— $65 Registration Fee for Young Ministers (Under 35 years old)
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At the present I am planing to fly down. Trudy will be busy winding down things at Burnt Hills B.C.. Her last Sunday here will be Sept 25th.

BTW Sandy, this was also at the link you provided. Thanks!

I may attend, depends on other demands.

by Harond Bloom. Can't remember if Thornton ever read it or not. I remember he did a fine review on his blog of the Lottie Moon bio by the CBF woman from Arkansas about seven years ago