The SBC was not designed as a missional network of churches.

Was just talking about this with a friend; audio has made the bar line much shorter.

‘We aren’t a top-down denomination’ is a hard thing to sell to a convention of messengers who keep being told from the leaders on the platform how things need to be run.

The SBC needs reform and better confessional cooperation, because at present *we are* a top-down…

This seems intuitively, obviously correct on 1A grounds.

I am interested in how California treats the use of force / touching to try to exclude the student, as a defense to the assault claim.

A fascinating thesis on Regular (Calvinistic) Baptists in colonial Virginia, and their strategy of civil obedience to the state and its church — in contrast to the revivalist, Separate Baptists like Leland who practiced civil disobedience.

etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/1124…

Virginia Baptists, 1770: Baptists don’t transfer disciplinary authority to the new association when they agree to cooperate in religious associations.

Welcome back to Kansas City, Donald S. Whitney; and congratulations to Midwestern Seminary!

mbts.edu/2024/04/midwes…

What is going on with the Southern Baptist Convention? What man will stand up as a leader from inside the institutions to say that enough is enough and we have lost our way? Repentance is part and parcel of being a gospel people. If we are no longer a gospel people please say so.

This is a very good statement from The Danbury Institute on the importance of the sanctity of life. They are honest and appreciative of Trump’s indisputable pro-life record and yet firmly call for more to be done.

Well done, Z. Scott Colter ✒️, Sharayah Colter, and Collin M. Hain

Fascinating looking lecture by my colleague, Professor Joel Alicea, on 'The Natural Law Moment in Constitutional Theory' at Harvard tomorrow. hls.harvard.edu/events/herbert…

The questions asked by Sam Webb are important for all SBC Trustees.

I voted against this proposal, as the job of a Trustee is to hold the entities to the Convention’s written rules — and I see no way for this to meet those rules.

centerforbaptistleadership.org/the-erlc-treat…

The anchor time slots on NPR have become unlistenable.

Not just because it’s liberal, but because it’s become joyless.

So very similar to the language of TGC and friends on race relations in 2016. The latest evangelistic lament.

Good piece on “Christian Nationalism” from World.

Glad to see the tradition of reporting on today’s Christianity still thrives there, in an age of Christian failbait and clickbait.

wng.org/articles/the-b…