Union U Baptist ID conference mendacity

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Here is a letter slightly editted, that I submitted to the Samford CRimson and believe will be published in this week's edition, 2nd week in December.
In George's pamphlet promoted by SBC, he abuses the legacy of Karl BArth while using his history before WWI as a foundation for his argument the SBC takeover was a necessary corrective, an underpinning for his case against Paul Simmons.
Would love for David Gushee at Union to have a breakout session at the Baptist ID function to discuss the politics of abortion; bring Robert Parham to the enemy camp and let Gushee and Parham discuss George and Land in light of Randall Balmer's chapter on abortion in Thy Kingdom Come.


Letters for Publication
The Samford Crimson
Bham, Bama

The Editors:

Picked up a copy of the Nov 15 "Crimson" couple weeks ago visiting your great Library and the awesome marble Staircase. As someone who former President Corts once suspected of planting a story on Samford in the Wall Street Journal, Furman grad and Baptist preacher's son, I feel "Called" to respond to the strong exchange of letters in the 11-15-06 Crimson.
First, if you are a student and don't want to be a blowhard all your life on the Baptist subject, start a thorough reading of the BX 6400's there in the Samford Library. It's my favorite shelf and I think you will like it as well. And go further; challenge your home churches to stock their church library shelves with the same titles as the Samford collection. I challenged a pamphlet on abortion written by Samford's Timothy George, published in the early 90's, and promoted by Richard Land and Karl Rove's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the SBC. George's seminary victim in that matter, Paul Simmons, former proff at the SBC Southern Seminary has his experience in the SBC purge written up in Carl Kell's recent U Tenn Published Book "Exiled".
Get that book and discuss it with your home church pastor and Deacon Board. Ask them to consider Carey Newman and Robert Gushee's testimony in Barry Hankins's Book Uneasy in Babylon.
Go from there. I'll be looking for your pilgrimage reports in the letters column of the Samford Crimson.

Sincerely,


Stephen M. Fox