Allen remembered how the commission spoke to the issues of its day, sponsoring a meeting on race at Southwestern Seminary in the early 1960s. He also noted the CLC sometimes was ahead of its time, offering a conference on biomedical ethics in 1965. James Dunn, who was director of the commission from 1967 to 1980, praised the CLC for remaining committed to historic Baptist principles of soul freedom and religious liberty and for being at the forefront of applied Christianity. The commission understood the importance of an incarnational gospel and experiential religion, he said. The CLC s mission has been personal, not propositional.
Theology is merely an attempt to understand religious experience.
Theology grows out of religious experience, not the other way around. I m not cured, but I am changed. Only 51 percent of children live in a household with two parents, and average parents spend just 40 minutes a week playing with their children. Parents are increasingly choosing work and consumption over their children. Pollution, the difficulties presented for sustainable agriculture and overpopulation all pose a threat.