Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren has apologized for a children’s Sunday school curriculum video that used Asian culture stereotypes to teach kids about the Bible. The video has been removed.
When Rev. Raphael Warnock joined the U.S. Senate, he assumed a seat previously held by Joseph Emerson Brown, an infamous White Southern Baptist politician who enslaved Black people. But to get to that position, Warnock had to overcome criticisms from a new generation of Southern
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.
A group of African American pastors, including three Baptists, urged Virginia lawmakers Jan. 7 to abolish the state’s death penalty, equating it to lynching and a declaration that Black lives do not matter. Read full piece
Can you imagine what would have happened if Black Lives Matter behaved in that manner? We would have witnessed “Bloody Wednesday.” Instances such as these epitomize white privilege. Read full piece
For a brief moment, I played the coward and the idiot next to you long ago. Read full piece
Since arriving as pastor of St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2017, Rev. Dwayne Gary has been stopped by Glencoe, Ill. police four times. 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.
The six Southern Baptist seminary presidents would have done well to reflect on their own denominational history. Read full piece