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Monday, March 16, 2009

Nurturing a community of civil Southern Baptist blogger discourse

Southern Baptist blog-world need not be a sometime verbal brawl. Enid, Okla., pastor Wade Burleson, whose blog is well-known and who has been on the receiving end of considerable harshness, has a good idea.

He's talking "out loud" in his blog space about how "many Southern Baptists can debate theological issues with a spirit of grace, never demeaning those who disagree, while displaying a humility that conveys they don't feel they always have all the right answers."

Positive examples are offered, the existence of the negative noted, and the benefits of civil discourse underlined.

To us, it sounds dangerously like old-fashioned, humility-rich, Christian civility. Can it prevail in Southern Baptist blogger-world?

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