Southern Baptist Convention

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A longtime pastor of a Texas church has decided to remain in the Southern Baptist Convention despite its historic issues of racial diversity and its embrace of the alt-right. The pastor, who did successfully help get a resolution passed condemning the alt-right at this year’s convention, believes that his presence in the group may help […]

Black scholar and minister Lawrence Ware is speaking out about his reason for cutting ties with the Southern Baptist Convention, America’s largest Protestant Christian denomination.In a New York Times op-ed on Monday, Ware, who works as co-director of the Center for Africana Studies at Oklahoma State University, said the SBC hasn’t done nearly enough to address its racist […]

Leaders in nation’s largest Protestant denomination are preaching that integrated churches can be a key driver of racial justice in society. But that could be…