by Sandy » Thu Dec 29, 2011 10:19 am
Thanks for posting that, Stephen. Looks like being the anti-SBC is still the primary focus of the displaced former paternalistic insider leadership of the SBC. Half of its top ten stories of 2011 involved something or someone related to Southern Baptists, while only one involved something that CBF was doing. Comparatively, the SBC is considerably larger, and obviously generates more news, but yuo'd think ABP, with its support coming primarily from CBF, would have different priorities.
I thought ABP was going to provide the "real" news and analysis for Baptists as opposed to the propaganda put out by Baptist Press. Surely the failure of Jimmy Carter's New Baptist Covenant to attract much of a crowd (I guess you can't really apply the term "crowd" to the turnout) and to accomplish, well, actually the term "accomplish" doesn't really apply to the New Baptist Covenant, either. Other than providing a pulpit and a platform for a few no-longer-prominent, out of the spotlight Baptists, and for Carter, I think it is safe to say that it has failed to deliver on just about anything he proclaimed it would do at the outset. That should warrant a mention as a top ten for 2011. Then again, mentioning it might have a lot of people scratching their heads, wondering what they were talking about.