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Since 1979, fundamentalists have inexorably gained power in the biggest and richest U.S. Protestant denomination, the 15 million-member Southern Baptist Convention. Last year the rightward tilt was affirmed when fundamentalist Morris Chapman of Texas was elected president over Georgia's Daniel Vestal, leader of the moderates. Fundamentalists (who prefer...
A fierce struggle is under way at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C. Unhappy moderates dominate the faculty, while fundamentalists run the administration and board. The Association of Theological Schools, which grants accreditation to graduate seminaries, is threatening to put Southeastern on probation unless the two factions show...
Rather than adopt the tactics of the politically correct, then, conservatives must demonstrate the superiority of their arguments through rational discourse. Rather than throwing around the charge of PC to discredit the position of their opponents, a practice that will eventually begin to backfire, conservatives and moderates must seek to...
Nearly every Democratic presidential hopeful in Congress voted against the force resolution. Opponents of the war included the predictable peace bloc, the entire Democratic leadership and even moderates like Sam Nunn and Lloyd Bentsen, not to mention other vaunted figures like Bill Bradley and David Boren. And New York Governor...
Moderates like Peres argue that the presence of so many more Jews will give Israel the confidence to make sacrifices at the negotiating table. But hard- liners view the influx as a stunning victory in the demographic war against the Palestinians -- and a mandate for a Greater Israel. Critics who...