tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5397103.post115141802904418825..comments2024-01-02T18:05:23.666-06:00Comments on Streak's Blog: Good question: where HAVE the Baptists gone?Streakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01443433745929880701noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5397103.post-1154135962198371082006-07-28T20:19:00.000-05:002006-07-28T20:19:00.000-05:00I am sure Rick Scarborough and Moore are out at a ...I am sure Rick Scarborough and Moore are out at a convention of hatemongers with Fred Phelps of Westboro Baptist. <BR/><BR/>They are all way too off the chart End of the World fanatics for me.<BR/><BR/>-Former BaptistRev. Rick Scarborough's Gospel of Hatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05433581318544670355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5397103.post-1151432690023761792006-06-27T13:24:00.000-05:002006-06-27T13:24:00.000-05:00Hey StreakWe're back from a long trip. Happy bela...Hey Streak<BR/>We're back from a long trip. Happy belated anniversary to you and SOF. We beat you by about three weeks. I'd forgotten we were that close time-wise.<BR/><BR/>Good post on Baptists. As I was trying to think of those who'd I'd consider willing to speak truth to power these days it was hard to come up with any who are pastors. Robert Parham over at <A HREF="http://www.ethicsdaily.com/" REL="nofollow">the Baptist Center for Ethics</A> comes to mind as do Tony Campolo and Will Campbell. Of course, there's probably some out there who aren't in any limelight and speak prophetically, but none I've heard. Campbell and Campolo probably won't be around too much longer and who knows who will fill their shoes? As you say, the public face of Baptists unfortunately is pretty much a match to the fundamentalist/nationalist spirit so popular in the country right now. It may be that prophetic voices speaking truth to power ("You are the man....") don't seem to be coming from the modern Baptist tradition.<BR/>Later<BR/>BBBootleg Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11842413990753418066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5397103.post-1151421456743350292006-06-27T10:17:00.000-05:002006-06-27T10:17:00.000-05:00I really wish that when I was at Southwestern Semi...I really wish that when I was at Southwestern Seminary in the mid-seventies more students had written papers on Truett instead of J. Frank Norris. It seems the shade of Norris is ascendant and we need more Truett.P M Prescotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12973205373056561583noreply@blogger.com