Steve Chalke responded to the EA’s press release fairly promptly. The text of his response is available online at the theology-and-public-life think-tank Ekklesia.

The site reports today that…

‘A leading denominational newspaper has voiced its concern over a recent statement from the Evangelical Alliance which publicly chastised Rev Steve Chalke for his views about the cross.

In a public letter in the Baptist Times, the editor Hazel Southam says that the Evangelical Alliance has “raised the stakes” with its criticism of the Baptist minister, and suggested that there is little point in having the public symposium which the Alliance is organising, if the organisation has already ruled out Steve Chalke’s viewpoint.’