in the Dec 18 print issue of
http://www.thenation.com
More Mention of George Truett. I do hope Truett Cathy and the top level staff of Chic Fil A will read Balmer's book early in the new year.
I think there is a very good chance Furman will be hosting Balmer in conjunction with FBC Greenville sometime this year.
CFA as they have been active in the Right to Life movement will want to take Balmer in stride and compare him to John Danforth's wise thoughts in his interview on Cspan back in September that continues to play. The use of abortion rights as a wedge issue, as cover for policies that bedraggle the working poor, is untenable, and Truett Cathy is too decent a man to fund or in any way advance that kind of politics, even if it means calling Timothy George and Richard Land to account.
Merry Christmas.
An edited version of this letter went to press this evening in the issue dated December 18. Thanks for sending it in.
Judith Long
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On Nov 15, 2006, at 1:55 PM, stephen fox wrote:
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My Daddy was a Baptist preacher and in the parlance of our tradition, I "got saved" in the Truett Memorial Baptist Church in Hayesville, North Carolina in 1959.
It is the great George Truett Randall Balmer celebrates in his book Thy Kingdom Come, reviewed with several others by Eyal Press in the Nov 20, Nation issue. My good friend Balmer--he has twice been the Dotson Nelson lecturer at the Baptist Samford Universtiy in Birmingham, holds Kerl Rove's operative in the SBC Richard Land up to the plumbline of Truett in his book, and finds Land woefully wanting.
Thank you Eyal Press for this great take on the current state of religion and politics in our American Experiment. I have linked the story on an active progressive Baptist discussion board to see how it plays here in Alabama and the region.
Stephen Fox
by fox » Tue Dec 19, 2006 5:43 pm 
