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BT Nov10 Nat V4:2010 Baptists Today 10/14/10 8:18 AM Page 1 BT_Nov10_Nat_v4:2010 Baptists Today 10/14/10 8:18 AM Page 1 NOVEMBER 2010 | Vol. 28, No. 11 | baptiststoday.org $3.95 Reading the Bible BillBill LeonardLeonard onon BaptistBaptist identityidentity differently pagepage 1010 JapaneseJapanese challengedchallenged AA conversationconversation withwith missionary’smissionary’s assumptionsassumptions LeonardLeonard SweetSweet pagepage 44 pagepage 3838 BT_Nov10_Nat_v4:2010 Baptists Today 10/14/10 8:18 AM Page 2 BT_Nov10_Nat_v4:2010 Baptists Today 10/14/10 8:18 AM Page 3 BAPTISTS TODAY NOVEMBER 2010 | Vol. 28 No. 11 John D. Pierce Executive Editor Baptists Today serves churches by providing a reliable source of unrestricted news coverage, thoughtful analysis [email protected] and inspiring features focusing on issues of importance to Baptist Christians. Jackie B. Riley Managing Editor [email protected] Julie Steele PERSPECTIVES Chief Operations Officer > Common challenges face church leadership ............................7 [email protected] By John Pierce Tony W. Cartledge Contributing Editor > Realizing grace and truth ............................................................8 An autonomous national [email protected] By Stephen N. Johnson Bruce T. Gourley Baptist news journal Online Editor > ‘Noisy’ Baptists continue debate over identity ........................10 [email protected] By Bill J. Leonard Vickie Frayne Art Director > The ‘other’ was us ....................................................................16 By David T. Ngong Jannie Lister Office Assistant > When atheists and Baptists agree ............................................17 Walker Knight Jack U. Harwell By Rachel Held Evans Publisher Emeritus Editor Emeritus Board of Directors > My evil plan to overthrow church-membership practices......25 Gary F. Eubanks, Marietta, Ga. (chairman) By Amy Butler Kelly L. Belcher, Spartanburg, S.C. (vice chair) > The ‘myth’ of a Christian nation................................................26 Z. Allen Abbott, Peachtree City, Ga. By James A. Rudin Jimmy R. Allen, Big Canoe, Ga. Nannette Avery, Signal Mountain, Tenn. > Embracing the radiant center ..................................................27 Thomas E. Boland, Alpharetta, Ga. By Leroy Seat Huey Bridgman, Columbus, Ga. Mary Jane Cardwell, Waycross, Ga. Robert Cates, Rome, Ga. Jack Causey, Statesville, N.C. IN THE NEWS Photo by John Pierce. Anthony D. Clevenger, Pensacola, Fla. Long-time missionaries to > Who are the Baptists? ..............................................................12 Kenny Crump, Ruston, La. Japan, Calvin and Harriett David Currie, San Angelo, Texas By Tony W. Cartledge James M. Dunn, Winston-Salem, N.C. Parker, live in Mars Hill, N.C., R. Kirby Godsey, Macon, Ga. > Baptist historian affirms individual conscience ......................13 where Calvin continues to William B. Greenhaw, Macon, Ga. > Young Christians seek community among the poor ..............14 write insightful books. Ben Gross, Chattanooga, Tenn. Story on page 4 Leslie D. Hill, Lexington, Ky. > Unbelievers know the most about belief ................................15 Michael M. Massar, Tyler, Texas J. Thomas McAfee, Macon, Ga. > Keithen Tucker completing service with Baptists Today ........24 Michael G. Queen, Wilmington, N.C. Lee Royal, Greensboro, N.C. > Civil-rights advocate Mac Bryan remembered ........................24 Mary Etta Sanders, Dalton, Ga. Charles Schaible, Macon, Ga. > Muslims ask: When will blame game end? ............................30 Macon Sheppard, Folly Beach, S.C. Walter B. Shurden, Macon, Ga. > Top religion reporting, Gus Niebuhr honored..........................31 Charlotte Cook Smith, Raleigh, N.C. David M. Smith, Houston, Texas > Mormon president says church needs more missionaries ....31 Leo Thorne, Valley Forge, Pa. Sarah Timmerman, Cairo, Ga. > Empty pews at Sunday evening services ................................32 David Turner, Richmond, Va. Heaven’s Rain Clement H. White, St. Petersburg, Fla. Winnie V. Williams, Seneca, S.C. FEATURES A story of pain and Baptists Today (ISSN 1072-7787) > Spirituality, consumerism mingle at Meyer conference..........33 forgiveness is published monthly by: Baptists Today > ‘What would Andy do?’ ............................................................35 P.O. 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In the Know 23 November 2010 • Baptists Today | 3 BT_Nov10_Nat_v4:2010 Baptists Today 10/14/10 8:18 AM Page 4 FEATURE STORY AND PHOTOS BY JOHN PIERCE Reading the Bible differently The Japanese challenged Calvin Parker’s assumptions MARS HILL, N.C. — Calvin Parker’s latest book, The Good Book Is Better Than It Used To Be: Eighty Years with the Bible, is fairly small but not a lightweight. It is an honest rendering of one bright Baptist’s mind and heart about Holy Scripture and the most challenging issues facing Christians today. he scholarly missionary to Japan (1951-1989) said his extensive experi- T ence in East Asia significantly changed the way he views the Bible. “They challenged a lot of my assump- tions,” Parker said of his 38 years of living, worshipping and learning among the Japanese people. “They helped me realize that my Western way of thinking unduly Friends in Japan ship a favorite treat to long-time missionaries, Calvin and Harriett Parker, who influenced my reading of the Bible.” have lived in the mountains of North Carolina since 1989. Parker said he arrived in Japan with an Aristotelian logic that assumed “if A is Arguments such as the one Baptists with his wife of 62 years, Harriett, has called greater than B, and B is greater than C, then often engage in over the “inerrancy” of the the mountain setting of Mars Hill, N.C., A is greater than C.” That was not the Bible hold little interest for Parker, he said. home since 1989, said he has never been Japanese way of thinking, he learned quickly. The so-called “domino theory” — that if one aggressive in trying to change the minds of Although he had studied Latin, Greek minor point in the biblical text is inaccurate others. and Hebrew, Parker said his “breakthrough” then the whole gospel truth might fall — is “My calling to is to be a Christian wit- came when he began to think and dream in tied to an old way of thinking for him. ness,” said Parker. “I’m not an activist like Japanese. “Inerrancy once made sense to me,” said some of my friends.” “The language affects how you do Parker, who was ordained to ministry by the However, Parker does have strong opin- logic,” said Parker. “The Japanese can’t First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, Fla., in ions about how some people use — or, in his possibly interpret the Bible as we do.” 1947, “[but] it no longer makes sense to me.” opinion, misuse — the Bible to justify partic- Parker said his early experiences in Japan But Parker said he avoids the discussion ular causes such as the invasion of Iraq and turned his mind from a rational approach to since “there’s not much room for compro- the subjugation of women. logic based on Greek philosophy to a rela- mise.” “If that’s the kind of mind you’ve got, “It is a Good Book if used in a good tional model based on biblical thought. That, then that’s the kind you’ve got.” way,” said Parker. “I want to put in a good in turn, impacted his approach to Scripture. The soft-spoken missionary who, along word for it.” 4 | Baptists Today • November 2010 BT_Nov10_Nat_v4:2010 Baptists Today 10/14/10 8:18 AM Page 5 FEATURE LEARNING ABROAD TELLING STORIES prison for threatening a grocer. Yet he was fired by the American Baptist Missionary While some people may think of missions in For those who cannot experience Japanese Union after just one year. terms of exporting truth, and often Western life firsthand, Parker has several varied and “He never was able to overcome his culture, Parker said he learned a great deal insightful books that are available at temper,” said Parker. “He really hurt the about faith and ministry from those with www.amazon.com. (Search for “F. Calvin missionary cause in one sense.” whom he worked in Japan — in addition to Parker.”) However, Goble did translate the a different approach to interpreting the For example, his book, Christ in a Gospel of Matthew into Japanese — the first Bible. Kimono: Christian Beliefs in Japanese Dress Bible translation. And he, unlike some early “They taught me to be more tolerant of (2003), gives insight into how the Christian missionaries, adapted Japanese architecture other people’s views,” he said. gospel is understood and takes hold in to churches rather than using Western styles. He credits Japan Baptist Convention Japan. Parker, who studied Goble’s life and leader Shuichi Matsumura with teaching “I was so infatuated with Japanese cul- influence for 14 years, said, “He had a lot of him to “put people to work in the church ture,” said Parker of his interest in writing insights but his character was always in and then win
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