That’s what I said to the other pastors one afternoon last week… “Let’s go see a movie.” And off we went to watch Ben Stein’s documentary film, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.

Ben Stein is an orthodox Jew and believes that theory of evolution is an inadequate explanation for the existence of life, not to mention the world and everything in it. So he sets out to demonstrate in the film that scientists and university professors are being systematically fired and blackballed for even daring to suggest that Intelligent Design (similar to biblical creationism but not exactly the same) be put on the table for discussion and debate.

Maybe I just haven't been paying attention. Or, maybe it's the fact that I'm a man, and the audience for Oprah's television show is decidedly female. But for whatever reason, I had no idea what the Queen of Television Talk has been up to.

For example, I didn't realize she had disavowed her Baptist upbringing and repudiated the doctrine of salvation through the Gospel of Jesus Christ and Him alone. I didn't realize New Age gurus are among her most frequent television guests. And I sure didn't realize Oprah was teaching classes in spiritualism on her website.

I recently read a story about a Baptist Church in Texas that is celebrating its 125th anniversary with a good old fashioned church split.  Nothing unique about that.  But when you realize what the church is fighting about, you simply shake your head and wonder, "How far can a church drift from the safe moorings of Scripture and still call itself a church?"

The controversy surrounds Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, TX. For the church’s 125th birthday, they planned to distribute a new pictorial church directory. But, since three gay couples asked to have their pictures included, Broadway Baptist has been involved in an increasingly divisive struggle over whether allowing the portraits to appear would be an endorsement of homosexuality by the congregation.