News & Commentary About All Things Baptist

Apparently, the folks at The New Republic are familiar with Sir Big Daddy Weave.
Michelle Cottle, senior editor of The New Republic has picked up a bit of my man-crush lingo in her latest post appropriately entitled Richard Land’s Man Crush. Check it out:

RICHARD LAND’S MAN CRUSH:While, as Chait points out, many social conservatives remain [...]

Last week James Dobson caused a small ruckus after a “private e-mail” of his was exposed in which he lambasted Fred Thompson. Here’s the e-mail:

“Isn’t Thompson the candidate who is opposed to a Constitutional amendment to protect marriage, believes there should be 50 different definitions of marriage in the U.S., favors McCain-Feingold, won’t [...]

The John Leland Award 
 
Love is in the air
In the rising of the sun
Love is in the air
When the day is nearly done
And I don’t know if you’re an illusion
Don’t know if I see it true
But you’re something that I must believe in
And you’re there when I reach out for you
Love is in the air
Every sight [...]

Fellow Baptist blogger Brian Kaylor has a breaking news story today over at EthicsDaily.com. Brian has uncovered information about where (if???) Freddy T attends church.
Let’s look at a snippet from Brian’s piece:
Questions about Thompson’s religious affiliation have dogged the former senator and star of “Law & Order” since Focus on the Family founder James [...]

Fred Thompson has found more love from Southern Baptist leaders. An article in the Tuscaloosa News quotes Morris Chapman, President of the Executive Committee of the SBC, as saying…
“Another Southern Baptist called Fred Thompson the Ronald Reagan of the South, and I think he has some of that appeal. He is a magnetic personality. [...]

We’ve written about Richard Land’s man-crush on Fred Thompson a time or two before.
Tricky Dick has weighed in heavily again on Fred…
“I’m around a lot of Baptists,” Land said. “They find Fred Thompson to be a tantalizing combination of charisma, conviction and electability. He’s got a Reaganesque ability to connect with ordinary folk that is [...]

This is from David Broady of the Christian Broadcasting Network….

 
Broady writes…. 
A very influential religious leader has some pretty strong opinions about soon-to-be presidential candidate Fred Thompson. Dr. Richard Land is head of the Southern Baptist Convention. Within evangelical circles he is well known. Politically, he is a mover and a shaker.
Today CBN News asked Dr. [...]