Welcome to the conversations that matter. My name is John Harris and it is a late Thursday evening but I wanted to show you guys a video that I just

a little bit and we need to think about this.

So I want to make a few comments.

I want to set it up first though.

So I'm going to show you two videos.

One of them you might have already seen if you follow the social justice debate at all in Christianity or evangelicalism, but for those who don't, I need to set this up. We had MLK50. We had Dallas Statement on Social Justice. So it's two sides start forming.

You have a social justice side and it's sort of like an anti-social justice side.

2019. I'll start in April. New York Times puts out an article in which they Walter Strickland was interviewed. He's a professor at

Southeastern Baptist theological seminary which is I think the second biggest Baptist

Seminary, and Walter Strickland says in this interview in the New York Times

article that he teaches liberation theology in James Cohn without mentioning James cone. Now the deception wasn't as much the

issue as was why are you teaching James Cohn?

James Cohn is a heretic, and this is what a lot of folks asked at the time.

And it made the president, Danny Aiken, a bit defensive.

And Walter Strickland tried to kind of reel it and he put out an article explaining

more why he admired Cone and basically the long story short is I take the meat and I spit out the bones. So I know Cohen is a heretic and I know he denies the divinity of Christ and so forth, but I'm taking his good ideas.

Now, Danny Aiken, who's the president there, the face he tried to put on this was, well no, we're just

teaching it negatively. So the same way we would teach evolution, like Darwin

in Darwinistic evolution perhaps, or well he didn't he I'm using that example he used I think

Neo Orthodoxy is an example the same way we would teach Neo Orthodox theology

even though we don't believe it is the same way we would teach any

flavor of Marxism, liberation theology.

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