by Bruce Prescott | Sep 8, 2009 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This is the second part of a five-part series in which Bruce Prescott, executive director of Mainstream Oklahoma Baptists, reviews the steps that led him away from fundamentalism. My second step away from fundamentalism was set in slow motion...
by Robert Parham | Jun 9, 2009 | Opinion
Inerrancy of the Bible was a crystal-clear battle cry in the fundamentalist war launched in 1979 to take over the Southern Baptist Convention from the alleged “liberals,” but it has failed to rally the factious theological conservatives and to deliver the...
by Drew Smith | May 11, 2009 | Opinion
The Bible has a long and rich history in Western society; no one can deny this fact. Its wisdom has brought many people comfort in times of sorrow, distress and confusion. Its stories have spoken to the hearts of believers for generations. Yet, the Bible is also often...
by Bob Allen | Jul 27, 2007 | News
The Southern Baptist Convention controversy of the 1980s and 1990s was supposed to be over inerrancy–the view that the Bible in its original form (called the “autographs”)–is literally true. But a University of Chicago professor says in a...