Ed Litton, pastor of Redemption Church in the Mobile, Alabama, suburb of Saraland, will be nominated for SBC president by Fred Luter, who was the first — and, so far, only — Black SBC President. Litton will face Al Mohler and Mike Stone in the
Dwight McKissic, a prominent Black Southern Baptist pastor in Texas, announced Friday that his church would make denominational changes in light of efforts by prominent Southern Baptists to condemn Critical Race Theory.
It may seem odd to connect the spectacle at the Capitol with the seminary presidents’ fumbling, but the two moves are aligned in the same work: preserving America’s White Supremacist common sense by limiting what certain social institutions are allowed to teach.
Southern Baptist African American leaders and seminary presidents said they had an ‘honest and open conversation’ during the virtual meeting earlier in the week amid controversy about Critical Race Theory.
This is not some sort of philosophical debate. It has very real, very dangerous consequences. Read full piece
Black pastors say seminary leaders undid progress. Read full piece
The presidents of the six Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) seminaries released a joint statement in late November dismissing critical race theory as incompatible with their understanding of the gospel and the 2000 Southern Baptist Convention Faith and Message. Read full piece
A sweeping recent statement about racial theory from Southern Baptist leaders has prompted at least four Black pastors to publicly break from the denomination and has triggered high-level, urgent meetings about whether Black evangelicals have a place in the Southern Baptist Convention. Read full piece
Adam W. Greenway, president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, attacked Black Southern Baptists who took offense at a statement he endorsed that condemned Critical Race Theory as “incompatible with the Baptist Faith & Message.”
A cross-ethnic group of Southern Baptists released a statement Friday titled “Justice, Repentance, and the SBC” that challenges SBC seminary presidents on the topic of Critical Race Theory.