Paige Patterson

Why does everybody in blog-land hate Paige Patterson so much? I just read this long diatribe about him on Baptist Blogger. So, he's rich! I thought that riches were right up there next to godliness in the Baptist hierarchy. I mean, so many BMWs (correction, rich-looking cars) roar past me as I walk home from Baptist events. Is it just easy to take pot-shots at a symbol of excessive wealth, while we all have our own little ungodly excesses at home that the Lord is convicting us of and we're not doing anything about?

Megachurches protesting

I read that Dr. Richard Land is going to be all over the news media, talking about providing uninsured children access to quality healthcare and how that should be a government priority. It seems like our govt. is going broke, whereas my church seems to be quite well off. The govt. generously offers me disability and food stamps and Medicare, whereas the church is really stingy about giving its money to the local poor. My church prefers to send its money on foreign mission trips. It gives some moneys to the local poor, but not anywhere nearly as much as it spends on foreign mission trips. If Dr. Land is saying that there is a need here, I would challenge the Southern Baptist Association to have bake sales and whatever it needs to do to raise the money to meet that need, instead of loading more demands on an already overloaded govt.