by David Emmanuel Goatley | Jul 2, 2009 | Opinion
People who believe that young people are hopeless should have been with me June 20-26 at the 55th annual Lott Carey Youth Seminar on the campus of Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C. Nearly 500 youth and their advisors spent a week for missional learning, serving,...
by David Emmanuel Goatley | Jun 5, 2009 | Opinion
Someone murdered an off-duty police officer named Mark MacPhail in Savannah, Ga., in the late 1980s. The state of Georgia convicted a man named Troy Davis and sentenced him to death in 1991. No one ever found the weapon used in the crime. No one ever found evidence...
by David Emmanuel Goatley | Apr 1, 2009 | Opinion
I have the privilege of serving on the Save Darfur Coalition board of directors. Save Darfur is a coalition of more than 180 faith and nonprofit communities committed to ending genocide in Darfur and Sudan and to ensuring peace, security, and justice in the region. ...
by David Emmanuel Goatley | Feb 14, 2008 | Opinion
The New Baptist Covenant Celebration was a great success. Bringing together Baptists from various denominational communities, theological traditions, ethnicities and geographic locations was an unprecedented venture. Those who participated sensed that we were at the...
by David Emmanuel Goatley | Feb 19, 2007 | Opinion
Baptists in North America work apart far more frequently than we work together. We seem to prefer independence over interdependence. The New Baptist Covenant is an attempt to collaborate around sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ, with attention to its impact on public...
