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The inauguration of an African-American president and the celebration of the contributions of Martin Luther King Jr. on the same day underscored progress in America in the arena of civil rights. President Obama, of course, is beginning his second term as the

2012 Archives

Pastor, civil rights activist Norman Shands dead at 96

December 21, 2012

author: Administrator

Otis Norman Shands Jr., 96, a key figure in the peaceful desegregation of Atlanta Public Schools in 1961 and a resident of The Baptist Home in Chillicothe, Mo., died at home on Dec. 17.

2012 Archives

Run civil campaigns

September 12, 2012

author: Bill Webb

The fall political races are set, from the U.S. presidency on down to state and local levels. We’ve finished the primaries. Now it is time for sorting through campaign promises and other information and making informed ballot decisions. A lot of bloggers

2012 Archives

Civil War changed Southern Baptists, historian says

January 20, 2012

author: Administrator

ATLANTA (ABP) – The American Civil War affected Baptists in the South in profound ways that still reverberate more than 150 years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, says a new book by a Baptist historian.

2011 Archives

Civil War changed Americans’ view of Providence, historian says

October 6, 2011

author: Administrator

Americans in 1860s viewed the Civil War through the lens of God at work in human affairs—a lens left shattered by that bloody conflict, according to historian George Rable.

2011 Archives

Fred Shuttlesworth, civil rights pioneer, dies at 89

October 6, 2011

author: Administrator

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) – Fred Shuttlesworth, the last of the “Big Three” of the civil rights movement with Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther King, died Oct. 5. He was 89.

2011 Archives

Pages from the past: The Civil War as seen in contemporary articles in the Herald

September 11, 2011

author: Jennifer Harris

Recognizing the unique opportunity we have to examine reports on Civil War events in our own publication, from time to time we are commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War by reprinting articles that appeared in the Religious Herald a century-and-a-half ago. Following is

2011 Archives

Civil religion â lowest common denominator or common ground?

June 30, 2011

author: Administrator

Some Baptists see civil religion as bland at best and idolatrous at worst. But others view broadly shared values of liberty, justice and acknowledgement of God’s providential care as a common ground Christians share with a majority of their fellow citizens.

2011 Archives

Civil War, Civil Rights

June 2, 2011

author: Administrator

One hundred and fifty years after Confederate artillery fired on Fort Sumter, S.C., and the Civil War began, reminders of the conflict that divided a nation remain fresh.

2006 Archives

Civil rights matriarchs

February 9, 2006

author: Ken Satterfield

By Bill Webb Word&Way Editor In a little more than three months, the world lost the matriarchs of a civil rights revolution in America. Rosa Parks, 92, who almost 50 years earlier kept her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus in a stand for justice,

MLK Jr. Day, inauguration: Civil right cause and result

Pastor, civil rights activist Norman Shands dead at 96

Run civil campaigns

Civil War changed Southern Baptists, historian says

Civil War changed Americans’ view of Providence, historian says

Fred Shuttlesworth, civil rights pioneer, dies at 89

Pages from the past: The Civil War as seen in contemporary articles in the Herald

Civil religion â lowest common denominator or common ground?

Civil War, Civil Rights

Civil rights matriarchs

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