Ravi Zacharias speaks at the ReFresh 2018 conference. (RZIM)
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Leading Christian scholars have signed a public letter calling on Ravi Zacharias International Ministries and its board to move forward with its investigation of the ministry s namesake with transparency and objectivity.
Philosopher William Lane Craig posted the letter on his Facebook page earlier this week, saying that the signators all respected Ravi Zacharias, and have been grieving the revelation that Zacharias was a sexual predator. As Christian philosophers and apologists who have respected Ravi Zacharias, we have been deeply troubled and grieved by Ravi’s documented sexual misconduct against women, the letter opens.
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Marc Jason Lawson, 49, of Cleveland, passed away on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2020, following a brief illness.
A graduate of Polk County High School, he was known to many friends as Catfish in recognition of his love for fishing.
He held a bachelor s degree in business from Jacksonville, Ala., State University, a master s of divinity from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and a master s in education from William Carey University in Hattiesburg, Miss.
A member of First Baptist Church of Cleveland, he was employed by Whirlpool Corp., at the time of his death.
He was preceded in death by his father, George Gary Lawson.
Adam W. Greenway is president of Southwestern Seminary and Scarborough College and professor of evangelism and apologetics. | Facebook/Adam W. Greenway
Adam W. Greenway, president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and one of six members of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Council of Seminary Presidents, has defended the group’s statement on critical race theory and intersectionality, dismissing much of the criticism around it as emotional misunderstandings.
He also noted that the statement was supported by SBC President J.D. Greear as one that reflected “a biblical view of justice.”
“First, some criticisms of the CSP statement are simply based upon misunderstandings. The CSP statement has been treated by some like a Rorschach test, where ultimate meaning is determined by the subjective experience of the recipient, not by the objective exposition of the statement. A common refrain I have heard and read from critics has been, ‘In rejecting CRT/I, the CSP stat
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Fred Luter speaks at the Southern Baptist Convention s Annual Meeting in New Orleans, June 18, 2012. Luter was elected president of SBC on Tuesday, June 19. | (Photo: The Christian Post)
Fred Luter, the Southern Baptist Convention’s first and only black president, along with current leader J.D. Greear have joined a growing chorus of dissent over a statement from the denomination’s Council of Seminary Presidents denouncing racism and critical race theory.
, which argues that “the actions of some in the SBC appear to be more concerned with political maneuvering than working to present a vibrant, gospel-loving, racially and culturally diverse vision.”