I’ve been meaning to write this post since I arrived back home from the Baptist Identity Conference but couldn’t quite get the text moving. The recent controversy into which Ed Dr. Stetzer’s names has been dragged provided proper impetuous to finally put text to word processor. For context, read my thoughts on Ed’s presentation at [...]

How you like that title for a post? I about ran out of room. This will probably be my last post dealing directly with the Baptist Identity Conference. However, before I left the subject, I wanted to provide a central listing of conference reviews and reflections. One of my chief interests after the conference was [...]

A thick snow last night shut our Sunday services at Welchland down so I’m going to attempt to take this time, normally reserved for corporate worship, to compose my summary thoughts on the Baptist Identity Conference. My thoughts don’t fall easily into order so I’ll give the over-arching reflections then post some scattered thoughts to [...]

Summary thoughts coming tomorrow (hopefully) but in the meantime head over to Union’s dedicated Identity Conference page and check out the speakers for yourself. *edit* I’ve went through and added links to the audio pages for each presentation (well, those that are available – Russell Moore’s isn’t yet) to the posts in which I discuss [...]

Speaker: Timothy George. Topic: The Future of Baptist Identity in a Post-Denominational World Audio Page You’ll need to read Steve Weaver’s notes when he gets them posted for context but I couldn’t go without recording this tidbit: Dr. George was just speaking about Baptist’s Calvinistic heritage and he just said that he recommended we do [...]

Speaker: Ed Stetzer. Topic: Toward a Missional Convention Audio Page I almost did come to this session. This for a different reason that I skipped last night. I’ve heard Stetzer on many podcasts, read his books when I was at Lifeway, and ultimately found his perspective wanting. Don’t get me wrong…I want to like this [...]

Speaker: Greg Thornbury Topic: The “Angry Young Men” of the SBC Audio Page I mentioned in my last post that Thornbury would be dealing with blogging within SBC life. In light of how pro-blogging this conference has been (thanks to Union for the free wi-fi in the meeting room, btw) I was curious to see [...]

Okay, here’s a confession: the last two speakers, Russell Moore and David Dockery, are so much more intelligent than I will ever be. Both of their presentations were overwhelmingly informative, so much so that I think I’m going to have to listen to the recordings several times to get a first grasp on what was [...]

The news out of Jefferson City is surprising in its timing but not shocking in its content. Dr. James Netherton, now former president of Carson-Newman College, has tendered his resignation from that office in order to take the position of Executive VP at Mercer University. Honestly, I’m torn on this issue. As a former student [...]

My stomach compromised my other wishes this morning. Union University was kind enough to provide a continental breakfast for conference attendees this morning. Being that I (a) loathe continental breakfasts, (b) pass by a Chik-Fil-Al on my way from my hotel to the conference, and (c) wanted to sleep in as late as possible this [...]