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So here’s a short, somewhat shaky clip that I took with my digital camera from tonight’s season opener at Floyd-Casey Stadium in Waco, Texas between Baylor University and Wake Forest University. The clip shows Baylor scoring their second and final touchdown of the evening. The Bears went on to lose to the Demon Deacons by [...]

That’s the title of an op-ed in yesterday’s USA Today. And of course the piece is about Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s homemaking degree. Check it out. ‘It isn’t logical’ Seen in a biblical light, Southwestern’s homemaking program is consistent with the Southern Baptist Convention’s social and theological conservatism. But seen in that same light, the [...]

In an op-ed published in the Baylor Lariat, Roger Olson, professor of theology at George W. Truett Theological Seminary, takes on John Piper and Calvinism. Olson definitely throws a few punches….. A snippet below: The God of Calvinism scares me; I’m not sure how to distinguish him from the devil. If you’ve come under the [...]