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Tennessee Pastor Tapped To Be First African American To Fill Key Southern Baptist Convention Position
In becoming the interim president and CEO, Pastor Willie McLaurin breaks a 175-year drought of Black leadership for the SBC.
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We’ve Got to Talk About This Jerry Falwell Jr. Cuckold Mess
The whole thing is too hot for TV-level messy. It’s Jerry Springer’s cameraman chasing the pool boy backstage messy.
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White Evangelical Support of Trump Proves They’re More ‘White’ Than ‘Evangelical’
Although I attended a black church my entire life, I was ordained into the Southern Baptist Convention, an organization complicit in the rise of the alt-right and whose troubling racial history and contemporaneous actions revealed a deep commitment to ignoring the influence of white supremacy. Last year, I wrote a piece for the New York…
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Georgia Church Expelled From the Southern Baptist Convention After Being Accused of Discriminating Against Black Congregation
The behavior certainly wasn’t “Christ-like,” which is probably why one Georgia Baptist church was unceremoniously kicked out of the Southern Baptist Convention on Monday after being accused of intentionally discriminating against a black congregation that shared its church building. According to The Tennessean, the convention’s executive committee voted to withdraw fellowship from the Raleigh White…
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Southern Baptists Are Apparently Cool With White Supremacy: Update
: Updated Thursday, June 15, 2017, 10:52 a.m. EDT: After a vociferous public outcry, the Southern Baptist Convention voted in favor of a resolution to condemn the white supremacist movement called the “alt-right” on Wednesday. The vote was met with a standing ovation from the 5,000 members gathered for the conference, which had refused to…