Re: [asa] Two questions...

Herein lies the reason for the lack of a prominent TE oriented ministry, there is no support or market for it in the church. Face it, becoming a TE will get you kicked out of most evangelical churches. My friend was afraid to tell his own wife for months and when he did he said he felt it would have been easier to tell her he was gay.

I used to long for a TE ministry to belong to as well until I realized just how divisive and polarizing this was. I would love to see RTB or Ravi Z or William Lane Craig or Chuck Colson come out and stress honest science as an effective evangelical tool (what a concept) but it would likely mean ministry suicide for them overnight. Not that that is a bad thing but just something that is not likely to happen.

I think the best we have is the Thank God for Evolution guy but in my neck of the woods people think he is misguided at best, a quack in general and one of those evil-lutionist servants of Satan on the other extreme. I think this is something that people just have to come to on their own and the word leaks out gradually. And maybe it is best if it is not popularized or marketed. The church definitely has a major theological reset coming to it though. I think it will be equivalent to that of the Copernican Revolution if not more impactful and I don't think that is an exaggeration.

Thanks

John

--- On Fri, 2/6/09, Dave Wallace <wmdavid.wallace@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dave Wallace <wmdavid.wallace@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [asa] Two questions...
> To: "Keith Miller" <kbmill@ksu.edu>
> Cc: "AmericanScientificAffiliation Affiliation" <asa@calvin.edu>
> Date: Friday, February 6, 2009, 6:57 PM
> Keith Miller wrote:
> >
> > I don't think that there necessarily has to be an
> organization built around every valued and important
> ministry. I very much see myself in the role that you
> describe above. That is the motivation for much of what I
> do. There are many efforts by a diverse range of
> individuals and organizations for which this is an important
> goal.
> >
> > Keith
> I for one very much appreciate the book that Keith
> contributed to and edited as well as all the other people on
> the list who also wrote chapters!
> I would be very surprised if either Keith, George or Dick
> make much if any money from their books. It would be nice
> if there were an endowment to at least pay for a good part
> of the authors time.
>
> Thanks all
> Dave Wallace
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