Required Reading (Slouching Luxury)

The headline for Jemar Tisby, at the Washington Post, is pretty straightforward: “Why a racially insensitive photo of Southern Baptist seminary professors matters”.

Officials from the seminary requested that the post be removed, and David Allen, one of the men in the picture and dean of SWBTS’s School of Preaching, tweeted an apology: “I apologize for a recent image I posted which was offensive. Context is immaterial. @swbts stance on race is clear as is mine.”

It’s odd for a preaching professor to suggest “context is immaterial,” because seminary professors usually teach their students that context is everything. The SWBTS “Mission, Vision, & Values” page states that their global “strategy includes the training of persons from every national, ethnic and cultural background for a variety of ministries.” But when it comes to understanding this particular photo, understanding a larger Southern Baptist and evangelical context is key.

Adam’s Panty Bug

Sometimes the idea of “don’t ask, don’t tell” is self-imposed. And among those occasions are some such that we needn’t wonder why. Nor should that be taken judgementally; I would no more notice the panties on Adam’s head than his girlfriend’s latest haircut. It’s just, you know, sometimes you wake up in the wrong place to be wearing someone else’s panties on your head, and, yeah, I suppose that can be embarrassing. To the other, though, this is one of those circumstances for which I have exactly no advice.

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Huber, Adam. “Got My Mind on My Undies and My Undies On My Mind”. Bug Martini. 13 August 2015.