{"id":3276,"date":"2008-12-01T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T08:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/more-on-sbls-alleged-lack-of-friendliness-to-evangelicals\/"},"modified":"2008-12-01T08:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T08:42:00","slug":"more-on-sbls-alleged-lack-of-friendliness-to-evangelicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/more-on-sbls-alleged-lack-of-friendliness-to-evangelicals.html","title":{"rendered":"More on SBL&#8217;s Alleged Lack Of Friendliness to Evangelicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/from-boston-to-blogosphere.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">my round-up of SBL blogging<\/a>, I mentioned the comment that was made by <a href=\"http:\/\/zondervan.typepad.com\/koinonia\/2008\/11\/ets-day-2-by-bill-mounce.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bill Mounce<\/a> about SBL, of various organizations he mentioned, being the \u201cleast friendly to Evangelicals\u201d. My comment was that there is an irony about this, since there are plenty of not only Evangelicals but conservative Evangelicals in SBL, and they present all the time. Yet if one is not the \u201cright sort\u201d of Evangelical, then ETS (for instance) suddenly becomes an unfriendly place. And so I asked what makes SBL \u201cless friendly\u201d. Is it the failure to protect conservatives from questions by those who don\u2019t share their assumptions? Is it the failure to kick out people who do not accept the Bible as Scripture, or do so but understand it in a different way than conservative Evangelicals? It sounds to me much like the sort of statement some American Christians make about the United States as a \u201chostile environment\u201d when in fact it provides a remarkable degree of freedom of expression, and protection for that freedom, at the price of allowing one\u2019s critics to also have the right to express themselves.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve tried several times to get my point across to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=576\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Roger Pearse<\/a>, who posted a \u201cresponse\u201d to me and <a href=\"http:\/\/jwest.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/25\/shame-on-you-sbl-you-arent-friendly-enough-to-evangelicals\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jim West<\/a>. I\u2019m not sure why my attempts at communication are failing. Perhaps some kind soul can take a look and see whether he is assuming I meant something other than I intended, or whether I\u2019ve failed to understand his point, or whether we\u2019re both talking past one another.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-7991987809571266175?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my round-up of SBL blogging, I mentioned the comment that was made by Bill Mounce about SBL, of various organizations he mentioned, being the \u201cleast friendly to Evangelicals\u201d. 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