How are progressives going to respond to Iran’s attack on Israel?

They are going to wait for Israel to fight back and then condemn Israel's response as genocide.

Wild news day.

Israel defends Al Aqsa Mosque.

Jordan and Saudi Arabia defend Israel.

Iran starts a large scale war and immediately calls for a ceasefire.

The clearest evidence that my wife is out of town is that my children are eating a second dinner about 45 minutes before bed.

I agree with Ben with one caveat. We need an updated BFM for churches to affirm.

The update I would suggest is in regard to Communion - to allow churches that practice 'close' Communion to affirm an updated BFM.

A brief thread this morning on religious liberty in 20th-century history:

Immediately following World War I, the executive committee of the Baptist World Alliance was concerned about how nations and their governments would reconstruct post-war,

On May 16, 1920, the Southern Baptist statesman and pastor of First Baptist Dallas, George W. Truett, delivered an address entitled, “Baptists and Religious Liberty,” on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.

The following thread is a selection of quotations from this address:

I ate three tacos at dinner instead of two today just in case Jesus comes back tomorrow.

I don’t think Jesus will…but…you only rapture once. #YORO

Earthquake + Eclipse + Trumpet = evangelical freak out

At 2 PM on Monday, I’m asking the trumpet players in our church to go outside and play their trumpets as loudly as possible.

Even if every person in our country became a Christian by freedom of conscious, we should not still make Christianity our national religion.

Look to Europe for the damaging impact a national religion makes on adherence to Christianity.

#ReligiousLiberty #ChristianNationalism

“In His image He created them. Male and female He created them.”

Go back to Sunday School, Joe.

Christ the Lord is risen today! Hallelujah!!

This is egregious and it doesn’t matter that the dates for Easter change yearly.

whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

It is finished.

What do female pastors and Christian Nationalists have in common?

Both are incompatible with the Southern Baptist confession of faith, the “Baptist Faith and Message.”

“In the world but not of it”