Nope. At least not if you consider their amazing missions output in these decades. This is my summary from Joel Carpenter’s marvelous Revive Us Again (Oxford, 1999), pages 28-29: Modernism wrought devastating effects in the Northern Baptist Convention. It sent 845 staffers overseas in 1930; it sent 508 in 1940. From 1920 to 1936 the [...]
Shooting Sacred Evangelical Cows: Credential-Envy
October 19, 2009 By 2 Comments
After a little break, I thought that I would fire up the SSEC series once more. We’ve tackled “incarnational ministry,” “engaging culture,” boutique coffee-drinking, and maybe something else. I can’t remember. Anyway, here’s another subject that strikes me as a sacred evangelical cow: our degrees. Before you read on, however, I will require you to [...]
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