Abortion and Fundamentalism, 1973

It is my contention that most evangelicals and fundamentalists (in America) did not have a firm conviction about abortion when the Roe vs. Wade ruling was first made. Issues like the creationist view of the soul vs. the traducian view were mere academics until then.

Is my memory wrong? I was debating this issue with some pastor friends and one man insisted that the fundamental world was firmly against abortion in 1973. I suggested that momentum built and by 1976, there was a consensus that abortion was wrong.

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Kevin Bauder in Salt Lake City - Foundations Conference

Reporting from a Days Inn in Salt Lake City …

Tonight at Grace Baptist Church in SLC, I had the opportunity to meet Kevin Bauder for the first time (and the first time to hear him speak). He doesn’t remind me at all of a stuffy academic (chuckling).

He tells “Three Stooges” jokes.

I thoroughly enjoyed his first session tonight on biblical inerrancy - covering the last 40 years of American evangelical history.

This is a fundamental battle that we face every day.

thinking of heart issues,

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Independent Baptist Friends International

Any thoughts on the Independent Baptist Friends International conference in Powell, TN? Did anyone attend?

Speakers included Jack Schaap, Ralph Sexton, Johnny Pope, Jack Trieber, Lou Baldwin, Bobby Roberson, Charles Keen, John Vaughan (FBF), Mike Shrock (BJU), and others. The event was sponsored by Pastor Clarence Sexton and Temple Baptist Church. Noticably absent was Sword of the Lord Editor Shelton Smith who was originally scheduled to speak.

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