A debate on prophecy fulfillment will be conducted at Huntsville, AL, on June 24th and 25th. The disputants will be Thomas N. Thrasher, a Church-of-Christ preacher in Decatur, AL, and Farrell Till, editor of The Skeptical Review. People living in the Huntsville- Decatur area may obtain information about the debate by contacting Mr. Thrasher at P. O. Box 1941, Decatur, AL 35602. His e-mail address is tnthrash@traveller.com.
We have been contacted by a graduate of a Bible school who is interested in defending the issue of the resurrection or the existence of God in public debate. He is presently doing additional religious studies at Southern Christian University. He is 27 years old and would like to have an opponent who is about his age and has the same level of education and experience. He has already had one debate and has two more scheduled. Preferably, he would like to have the debate on a college campus in the southern part of the United States.
Anyone interested in this proposal should contact John Lewis at P. O. Box 65, Lone Grove, OK 73443, or call him at (405) 657-4455.
In the Mailbag column of this issue, as well as earlier issues, we expressed a suspicion that the American Society for Religious Concern was a phony organization. That suspicion has now been confirmed. In January, "editor" Dennis Conley mailed a letter announcing the demise of The Believers' Chronicle and laid the blame for his paper's failure on "Satan and Farrell Till." Just recently he sent us another letter in which he claimed the whole thing had been a joke. In reality, Conley claimed, he is a "freethinker" who "left fundamentalist Christianity 15 years ago." He further said, "I agree with everything you say," and admitted that his claim of having 1500+ subscribers was an exaggeration. Now he says that he had actually had only "a handful of subscribers... 12 to be exact."
Conley said that he had just wanted to have a little fun and that he had succeeded by getting so much attention from atheists. We really think that Conley is just trying to save a little face, but in case he is finally telling the truth, all we can say is that the freethought community hardly needs friends like him.
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