I've been traveling over the weekend so it's good to be back in the, well,

studio for lack of a better term in the office that I have here and man there's a lot to talk about but I'll give

updates on the trip I think later in the week or maybe early next week I want to

get to some Southern Baptist stuff and I'll get right to the point. The lots happened in the

convention over the course of two days and I think some significant things were either exposed or

or took place that I want to make some predictions based off of if possible and I want to draw some conclusions about.

So we'll probably do one more podcast

concerning Southern Baptist related issues.

I have Jeff Wright, who's a friend.

He wants to come on the podcast, and so he's going to be scheduled soon.

I'll actually, it's reminded myself to get back to him later today to schedule that, but he

wants to make I think the argument for conservatives to stay in the

convention. I have no problem.

Having someone on this platform to make that point.

I've obviously been making a point for the last couple of years

that I think it's not looking good. and there's some silver linings in this last convention, but I still maintain that things are overall going in a not great direction and in some ways politically this may be and I might be the only one saying

this but in some ways politically this may be one of the worst years for conservatives in a way in one way and so I'm going to explain in what way I think that is.

While also acknowledging, there are some really good things.

I was actually surprised to see the, I think it was 88% of the messengers

voted to kick saddleback out of the convention.

I mean, that's, I said I think in the last podcast, if it was 80%, that's a landslide and

that's a clear signal that the convention doesn't want the sort of thing Rick Warren is marketing.

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