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Southern Baptists’s Long Journey
On June 19, 2012, the Reverend Fred Luter was elected as president of the Southern Baptist Convention, America’s largest Protestant denomination. In many respects, his election was unremarkable: The...
Reading the Bible with the Reformers
For the reformers the Bible was a treasure trove of divine wisdom to be heard, read, marked, learned, and inwardly digested, as the Book of Common Prayer’s collect for...
Ministering to Ministry
Freedom for Ministry by Richard John Neuhaus. Eerdmans, 272 pages, $26. Among his many books, Freedom for Ministry held a special place in the affections of Richard John Neuhaus....
Evangelicals and the Great Tradition
This spring, the evangelical world was roiled when Francis J. Beckwith, a professor of church-state studies at Baylor University, decided to return to the faith of his childhood and...
Southern Baptists After the Revolution
All ecclesiastical revolutions eventually run out of steam. New concerns emerge, and different leaders come to the fore. It is too early to tell whether the election of Frank...
What God Knows
There is a medium-sized theological brouhaha stirring within the evangelical academy these days, and, unlike some of the other intra-evangelical debates of recent years, this one is about something...
Retrieving the Tradition and Renewing Evangelicalism: A Primer for Suspicious Protestants
This book is at once a protest and a lamentation against what might be called the tradition of traditionless evangelicalism. D. H. Williams is an ordained Baptist minister who...