Calvinists, Clowns, Czechs, and John Stott

Congratulations on the United States congress and executive running the show like some Southern Baptist Churches. Clowns.

John Stott, RIP. He was known to have participated in many a sermon in the churches I have pastored.

I read that data shows that more recent seminary graduates are calvinistic these days, the percentage of these freshly minted MDivs and the like being around 30% whereas only 10% of SBC pastors in the SBC at large are five-pointers. Since recent grads are as a group less mature and experienced, may we expect a greater number of calvinist/church conflicts in the near future? I hope not.

Occasionally, I wonder if the SBC would have been as well or better off if former SBC moderates were still around and involved, then I read about some of that group like C. Welton Gaddy (here) and get over it. Thank God for the CR.

I recently have taken a liking to Czech composer Bedrich Smetana and along comes a Czech who gets saved and I baptize him. How about that? I've always liked Tchaikovsky, even have a cyrillic Bible, and am on the lookout for a Russian to get saved.