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Authentically Baptist

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From the website of Central Baptist Church of Wayne, PA:

In affirming the historic Baptist principle of non-creedalism, Central Baptist Church holds that this addendum to ABC’s identity statement is distinctly creedal, forcing one limited interpretation of Scripture upon the whole of American Baptists. This serves to silence the movement of the Holy Spirit in and through Scripture. Our Baptist ancestors would be horrified to see us sell out our Biblical principles by replacing the voice of Scripture with a human decree. We lament that this turn means that the American Baptist Churches USA is no longer authentically Baptist.

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Mubarak's Reality: Baksheesh

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Hosni Mubarak didn’t contrive his I’m the preventer of chaos reality all alone.  The tyrannical dictator of Egypt, who today told ABC’s Christiane Amanpour that he’d love to step down but can’t, has for three decades been appreciated (both politically and financially) by the West for what he is not:  another critical voice in a troubled and troubling region.  Poverty, ineptitude, graft, corruption, injustice: all were no match for Western fear of creeping radical Islam, i.e. the Muslim Brotherhood.  Mubarak’s spent his years making the most of Islamophobic rhetoric.  In a nation that’s neither rich nor poor, African nor Middle Eastern, friendly nor hostile, familiar nor understood, Mubarak’s benefitted from playing the foil for Western projection. Continue Reading →

Mubarak’s Reality: Baksheesh

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Hosni Mubarak didn’t contrive his I’m the preventer of chaos reality all alone.  The tyrannical dictator of Egypt, who today told ABC’s Christiane Amanpour that he’d love to step down but can’t, has for three decades been appreciated (both politically and financially) by the West for what he is not:  another critical voice in a troubled and troubling region.  Poverty, ineptitude, graft, corruption, injustice: all were no match for Western fear of creeping radical Islam, i.e. the Muslim Brotherhood.  Mubarak’s spent his years making the most of Islamophobic rhetoric.  In a nation that’s neither rich nor poor, African nor Middle Eastern, friendly nor hostile, familiar nor understood, Mubarak’s benefitted from playing the foil for Western projection. Continue Reading →

Mubarak’s Reality: Baksheesh

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Hosni Mubarak didn’t contrive his I’m the preventer of chaos reality all alone.  The tyrannical dictator of Egypt, who today told ABC’s Christiane Amanpour that he’d love to step down but can’t, has for three decades been appreciated (both politically and financially) by the West for what he is not:  another critical voice in a troubled and troubling region.  Poverty, ineptitude, graft, corruption, injustice: all were no match for Western fear of creeping radical Islam, i.e. the Muslim Brotherhood.  Mubarak’s spent his years making the most of Islamophobic rhetoric.  In a nation that’s neither rich nor poor, African nor Middle Eastern, friendly nor hostile, familiar nor understood, Mubarak’s benefitted from playing the foil for Western projection. Continue Reading →