Dan Wallace

Today on The Dividing Line I addressed changes in Mormonism, focusing on the church’s obvious retreat from the viewpoints and beliefs of earlier generations. This led me to tell the story of Zelph the White Lamanite. You’ll just have to listen. Then we took calls on Islam and Roman Catholicism, so we truly covered a wide spectrum of topics today!

Today we had a jumbo sized DL (90 minutes) once again focusing upon the exploding discussion of homosexuality in Western culture. Started with a lengthy reading of, and response to, this article by Rachel Held Evans. Then responded briefly to a comment by Hugh Hewitt, then noted a statement in Barack Obama’s book, The Audacity of Hope, wherein he identifies

We had an important discussion of the recent study showing that “Protestants” are now less than 50% of the US population, and I discussed how the “Nones” are now 20%, and what this means for evangelism and apologetics. Then we went back to Paul Williams’ comments, almost finishing off his opening statement.

I started off playing a portion of Dan Barker’s “testimony” about his deconversion, focusing upon what kind of Christianity he left, and making application from there. Then we took our break and had two phone calls on Matthew 16:18 and “upon this rock,” leading to a fairly lengthy discussion of the development of the papacy over time.