Some sanity returning to Southern Baptists? They just had an election upset and the conservative leadership was rebuffed and a moderate populist was chosen. His big change will be toning down the rhetoric.
"I believe in the word of God," Page said. "I'm just not mad about it."Bill Leonard, the dean of the Wake Forest University, said "Some people are tired of just fighting liberals. You need a reason to be a Southern Baptist other than just fighting liberals in the culture or in the church."
So I suppose I am safe from the pitchforks and firebrands for a while.
Another sign of change - there is even a literalist Chronicle blogger who is indicating some limited movement toward accepting women teachers in church. His mistake, as some of his co-religionists call it, I suppose was actually looking at the issue and the contradictions on it in the New Testament. I pointed out to him he will also have to decide if Titus and Timothy were actually written by Paul and if should go with the King James Version with a female apostle or the more conservative Bibles who have changed her to a man despite no masculine form of that name.
Is the American Taliban softening?
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