Confessions of a Recovering Pharisee

[AJC]

Smiling women on the cover of a slick magazine. Sold from under the counter. Must request it from store clerk. That’s not something a buyer would typically find in a Christian bookstore. Not unless it’s one of the more than 100 Lifeway Christian Bookstores across the United States, including about six in metro Atlanta.

Gospel Today, the Fayetteville-published magazine, was pulled off the racks by the bookstores’ owner, the Southern Baptist Convention. The problem? The five smiling women on the cover are women of the cloth — church pastors. Southern Baptist polity says that’s a role reserved for men.

Read more here.

[From me]

Getting the magazine from under the counter?  Sounds like an adult magazine.  

I agree with the Biblical view about the office of Pastor (that is another issue all together) but why pull the magazine? So when are the books and magazines by all of the divorced, overweight, lusting, lying, cheating, etc… authors going to be pulled next? When are the going to pull Philips, Craig and Dean CD’s because they don’t believe in the Trinity? What about TD Jakes? Benny Hinn? My book? (well no one has that one) What about the books that teach the Charismatic gifts? If they wanted to they could get rid of every item–why chose this one? 

What do you think?

[HT]Mark Mansheim