Robert Parham is maybe not outraged, but quite upset Sally Quinn and Berlinbleau of WashPost and Newsweek and Religion blog could get the Baptist Covenant in Atlanta so wrong.
Here are the 41 comments so far on Berlinbleau's blog there saying he had more respect for Richard Land in re the Covenant than the Covenant planners when it comes to politics.
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfa ... ments.htmlAnd here is Parham's steam:
http://www.ethicsdaily.com/article_detail.cfm?AID=10068Good news is Randall Balmer and Brent Walker are regular contributors to the Newsweek blog site. Let's hope they set the record straight and soon.
Newsweek's Jon Meacham is from Richard Land's hometown of Chattanooga, TN.
One upshot is with all this and the Huckabee campaign, maybe we can have Balmer and Land tour the country with Charles Marsh and Ginny Brant and get some of this straight.
As I have said before, Bill Friday got it right in 87 with his comment to Cecil Sherman.
Maybe Sally Quinn will understand by June. Let's hope so.
Tom Edsall of the Huffington Post knows the difference.
On Another note, Furman's Jim Guth is quoted in the front page story in NY Times today on Huckabee and McCain's struggle. Guth says matter of factly it is a Southern Baptist thing.
Maybe some of this will register with deacons at FBC Montgomery and Dawson Memorial and like churches who continue willy nilly to fund the Cooperative Program.
But I doubt it. The trick is on me and other crackers who thought literacy and Marshall Frady might make a difference. It's a paraphrase or parody of Flannery OConnor's wit about sin; maybe cynically is now as true of Robert Parham and me as it was for Flannery's assessment in the 40's.