GUEST TOM BUCK Senior Pastor First Baptist Church Lindale TX In late May pastor Tom Ascol who was then a candidate for president of the Southern Baptist Convention SBC joined us to discuss some of the pivotal issues facing the largest Protestant denomination in America Their annual convention came and went in mid-June in Anaheim CA with Ascol finishing second in the voting for president behind a less biblically-conservative candidate named Bart Barber There is a major debate taking place within the SBC that is representative of the larger debate within the Evangelical church on issues related to gender race [... more]