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A Matter of Conviction: A History of Southern Baptist Engagement with the Culture

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This book is not near as bad as the other reviewer has it. Yes, it does spend too much time on Dr Land, but most of the book is about the Christian Life Commission, and the poor leadership provided for so many years by Foy Valentine. Anyone interested in the recent history of the Southern Baptist Convention needs to read this book. But better editing would have helped it.

If there is any wonder of why the Southern Baptist numbers are declining, the three peoples names on this puff piece for Richard Land are part of the reason. While Jimmy Draper was at Life Way the numbers speak for them self. Richard Land is touted as the champion of conservatives, you can guess who gave him the title. And, as the policy arm of the Southern Baptist, I hope someone can come up with one policy he has championed. I thought the book that God gave us was all the policy we needed. I like his saying that George Bush had the right to go to war and the Republican party should take in the religious right and he wanted a consummation of the marriage not a ring. Look at the cover and you can see the book is about Richard and not the ERLC, that most Baptist don't know what he or the ERLC does or has done to advance the cause of Christ. And, proclaimed from the cover, the renowned pastor Jerry Sutton is really a work of wannabe. He is being sued for spending the Two Rivers Baptist Church money (God's) with no accounting. He has spent more time at the book store, fancy restaurants, far away places and this gave him little time for God's work at the church or to write a book. And, just a few of the above is reason to close down the ERLC and Broadman and Holman shoud be ashamed. I will guess the reason Jerry Sutton's name is on the book as author is , no prolific and legitimate writer would be associated with this puff piece on Richard Land. If Sutton still has his Two rivers credit card, he can give this book and early boost in sales and Bobby Reed can attest to his paying the credit card charges off with cash. What a waste of God's money and good paper and ink.