Marc Minter

This is absolutely true. I often don’t even know what I think about a thing until I spend time articulating my thoughts in a coherent argument… usually by typing them out in long form on a computer. Also, my thoughts are usually further understood and codified after…

This critique of Southern Baptists is either naive or dishonest. Either way, it ignores a great number of Southern Baptist pastors and churches who stand right in the middle of participatory, historic, and authentic Christianity. I know hundreds of Southern Baptists pastors…

Christ NEVER submits to the Church. He leads her, He sacrifices for her, He forgives her, He cherishes her, He cares for her, He provides for her… but He never submits to her. The Church ALWAYS submits to Christ. Mutual submission is a contradiction in terms.

The latest from “Marc the Baptist” Who was E. Y. Mullins? And how did he influence Baptists with the publication of his “Axioms of Religion” in 1908? marcminter.com/p/book-review-…

Good leaders never submit to those under their leadership. Good leaders consider the perspective and concerns of those under their care, but they make decisions and proceed with actions that may or may not be agreeable to them. Leaders lead, and followers submit.

I recommend that everyone stop using the term “servant leader.” It often implies the responsibility of leadership without the authority to lead. If you want a leader, you don’t want a servant. You want someone who possesses both the responsibility and the authority to lead.

Liberalism is like a teenager who demands freedom from parental restraint, while simultaneously expecting mom and dad to fund his/her escapades and clean up his/her messes.

Liberalism is to politics what it has always been to theology - it borrows from the structures and order of tradition and ethics, but it denies and destroys the ultimate truth-claims that are necessary to uphold structure and order.

Conservatives should stop trying to link arms with Libertarians and any other forms of liberalism. Liberalism does not conserve anything. It is a toxic and destructive acid that eats away at the very foundations of society and order.

E. Y. Mullins influenced Baptists (esp. Southern Baptists) for the worse. His hyper-individualism created bad results for churches and politics. If you’re frustrated by the common Baptist instinct away from institutions and communal structures, then Mullens deserves your ire.

Baptists often get blamed for doctrines and practices that actually emerge from the Enlightenment. It is true that many Baptists have historically and presently embraced Enlightenment thinking - i.e., individualism, liberalism, extreme rationalism - but this is an aberration.

If you’re an American and you’re not listening to audiobooks or reading print books of American history, then what are you doing? There’s such easy access to our history and heritage that willful ignorance is robbing you of patriotism and a sense of your cultural distinction.

On this day in 1753 Lemuel Haynes was born of a white New England mother and an African father. His father couldn’t keep him, and his mother didn’t want him, so he was abandoned in infancy. But the Haynes family took him in and later a man named David Rose later did the same.…

The battle is always a religious one. Secularism puts on the camouflage of neutrality, but it directly opposes natural law and Christian tradition like a fundamentalist religion all the same. There is no neutrality. Religious pluralism is the enemy of religious freedom.

If only the anticipation of this shame could have prevented the pursuit of the shameful thing in the first place…

“With this book, Steven Smith has given conservative and religious proponents of religious liberty an alternative narrative, reassuring them that the secularists are indeed the antagonists, and not themselves.” marcminter.com/p/book-review-…