Southern Baptists and the Unholy Gale
This issue of A Public Witness takes off on a quest to understand what the recent Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission Brent Leatherwood debacle tells us about religion and politics.
The Next Baptist President of the United States?
This issue of A Public Witness details the religious background of Kamala Harris, now one of the two leading contenders to be the 47th president of the United States.
Kamala Harris Holds Private Meeting With Rev. William Barber
The vice president sat down with Barber and the Rev. Kazimir Brown, head of Repairers of the Breach, to discuss poverty and Israel's ongoing assault into the Gaza Strip.
Vice President Harris Critiques Florida’s Slavery View at AME Churchwomen’s Meeting
Harris said she felt ‘at home’ among the African Methodist Episcopal Church members as she recalled her own Christian upbringing in Oakland, California.
Rev. Amos Brown, Vice Chair of California’s Reparations Task Force, Calls for Action
Rev. Amos C. Brown is a civil rights veteran and onetime student of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Now, the 82-year-old senior pastor of San Francisco’s Third Baptist Church is vice chair of California’s Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans.
Most Americans Know Biden is Catholic, Far Fewer Know Harris is Baptist
Most Americans know President Joe Biden is Roman Catholic but there are stark differences — especially based on political party — in how they believe he should live out his faith, a new study shows. Fewer know the faith of Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Jezebel”: The Dehumanizing History of Name-Calling in the Name of God
For some Christians, to be a woman in leadership remains a spiritually suspect reality. And the misogyny at work in the name “Jezebel” was only compounded when it was adopted into the United States’ history of racial prejudice. Read full piece
As Black Female Politician, VP Harris a Top Target of Online Trolls
As controversy continues after some prominent Southern Baptist pastors called U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris a “Jezebel” or said she was “going to hell,” new research shows that Harris and other women of color remain top targets for online attacks.
Founders Ministries President: VP Kamala Harris “Going to Hell”
While defending Southern Baptist pastors who called Vice President Kamala Harris a ‘Jezebel,’ Southern Baptist pastor Tom Ascol declared Harris was going to hell. He also consigned journalists Anne Branigin and Jake Tapper to that fate for reporting on pastors who compared Harris to the
Calvinist Group Defends ‘Jezebel’ Attacks on VP Kamala Harris
As controversy grows about comments by Southern Baptist pastors comparing Vice President Kamala Harris to the biblical character Jezebel, a leader in Founders Ministries, a group pushing Calvinism within SBC life, claimed critics of the pastors worship a false religion.