Monday, October 16, 2006

The Road to Nowhere—Middle Church

re: Albert Mohler read Bob Edgar's Middle Church: Reclaiming the Moral Values of the Faithful Majority from the Religious Right, and finds, among other things, "...We must always be willing and ready to read what our own critics have to say. This is especially true when the critic is fair, intelligent, and thoughtful. Unfortunately, Bob Edgar has written a book that fits none of those categories. Instead, his book appears to be nothing less than a parody of mainline Protestantism--a cartoon reflection of what the ecumenical movement really represents. Middle Church is a roadmap to nowhere except further decline in influence and relevance for liberal Protestantism."...

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