“To impugn our motives (that we are selling out the Bible for the pottage of popularity), to reduce our concerns about love and justice to sentimentality, to dismiss us with the ‘L’ word and a questionable narrative surrounding it, and to demean as ‘secularized’ our attempt to articulate a fresh vision of the gospel probably won’t pass muster as a fair hearing.”
Brian McLaren
The emergent church leader was responding to critics who say pastor Rob Bell’s new book advocates universaliam. (ABP)
“If we do not want to see a substantial drop in our standard of living over the next 50 years in the United States, we need to be building nuclear power plants.”
Richard Land
The head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission was expressing concern that Japan’s nuclear plant crisis could prompt calls to halt expansion of nuclear power in the United States. (ABP)
“The Kingdom of God is bigger than Southern Baptists.”
Vance Pitman
The president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Pastors’ Conference was responding to criticism of this year’s conference speakers. (ABP)