Recently on an airplane, as I was traveling back to Atlanta, I sat next to a lady whose name was Judith. We got into a conversation and she got around to asking me what I did. I told her that I was a minister. She immediately began to discuss religion. She began to criticize a certain Baptist seminary in Louisville, Kentucky and the extreme right-wing fundamentalists that had taken the seminary over. She had seen a movie about it and she was appalled at what had happened.

That led into an extremely interesting conversation that was an eye-opener for me. In the course of the conversation, she especially singled out Southern Baptists, and how she could not understand why we couldn't just "live and let live." She especially referred to the Southern Baptist emphasis on evangelism. She said, "…