Pastors Buck & Swofford, Get the Biblical Story of Jezebel Straight!
This is the height of racism, misogyny and the weaponizing of the biblical text to harm and to do violence. Read full piece
Some Southern Baptist Pastors are Calling Kamala Harris ‘Jezebel.’ What Do They Mean?
It didn’t take long after the inauguration of the nation’s first woman vice president for some pastors in the Southern Baptist Convention to start comparing her to the Bible’s most nefarious woman. Two days, to be exact.
SBC Pastor Calls Vice President Kamala Harris a ‘Jezebel’ Two Days After Inauguration
The Southern Baptist Convention already had a problem with Black pastors because its six seminary presidents have launched a battle against Critical Race Theory. Then an East Texas SBC pastor added to the consternation Jan. 22 by calling Vice President Kamala Harris a “Jezebel.” Read full
Biden’s Bible Puts Him in Line with Inaugural Tradition
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will take their oaths of office on Wednesday using Bibles that are laden with personal meaning, writing new chapters in a long-running American tradition — and one that appears nowhere in the law.
America Elected a Female Vice President. Now Will it Put Women in the Pulpit?
While women are changing the world of electoral politics, their progress in the world of religion is downright glacial. Ryan Burge unpacks the data over the past two decades.
Kamala Harris’s Pastor Expresses Hopes for Greater Social Justice
The pastor of Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris’s Baptist church praises her as “human decency and dignity at its best.” Amos C. Brown, a longtime civil rights activist who has pastored Third Baptist Church of San Francisco since 1976, made the comments in a Word&Way interview.
Simmons College Receives Racist Calls After Election of HBCU Grad Kamala Harris
Following the apparent election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, Louisville’s only Historically Black College has received two hate-fueled voice mails in recent days. Read full piece
Kamala Harris Set to Bring Baptist Faith, Hindu Roots to Historic Role
Kamala Harris is positioned to become the first woman, first Black person, and first Indian American person to be elected vice president of the United States. And with these historic firsts, vice president-elect Harris also brings a mix of her Black Baptist faith and Hindu heritage. Read
Black Baptist Leader to Pray at Democratic Convention
Jerry Young, president of the National Baptist Convention, USA — the largest Black Baptist denomination in the country — will give the benediction for Monday’s Democratic National Convention session.
Why Me?
What if instead of rewarding the most brash, most aggressive, most self-assured leaders we instead elevated those who didn’t seek the position? What if we took into account which candidates have more humility, self-sacrifice, and even hesitancy when offered power and glory?