Nashville Scene - Nothing Sacred

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December 1, 2005




The Author


Joseph Sweat


.Nothing Sacred
Author, civil rights activist and Baptist minister Will Campbell is friend to Klansmen, whores and the hopeless �but he rejects the �soul molesters� of the Southern Baptist Convention
by Joseph Sweat
photos by Eric England
Writer and renegade preacher Will D. Campbell is probably the only ordained Baptist minister dead or alive ever to call one of the Southern Baptist Convention�s highest ranking officials a �hypocrite and a jackass.� To his face, no less.
There�s been a heap of bad blood between Campbell and the honchos of that Nashville-based religious convention juggernaut that characterizes itself as �America�s largest non-Catholic denomination with more then 16.3 million members in 43,024 churches nationwide.� That�s because, in books, speeches and interviews, Campbell keeps poking the brethren in the butt with his theological pitchfork. And he�s about to get it out again with a new book in the works and reissues of two of his most anti-institutional novels.
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