by Robert Parham | Aug 13, 2015 | Opinion
No mention of documentaries. No comment about broadcast TV. No reference to websites. No word about the Internet. No suggestion about networking with global Baptists. No note about race relations. No word about immigration, interfaith and incarceration. If one...
by Chuck Summers | Aug 6, 2015 | Opinion
We have been reminded in recent days on a far-too-frequent basis that racism continues to be an ugly scar upon the soul of America. Most of the media attention has focused on acts of violence afflicted upon African-American and Hispanic individuals. This violence is...
by Brian Kaylor | Jul 27, 2015 | News
South African leaders spoke during the Baptist World Congress about the nation’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) that helped the nation’s transition from racial apartheid. With the Congress meeting in Durban, South Africa – the city where...
by Griff Martin | Jul 15, 2015 | Opinion
It’s a big week for book lovers with the arrival of the much anticipated and almost too good to be true second novel of Harper Lee. Many of us would consider “To Kill a Mockingbird” an important work in race relations, a book that looked at racial...
by Thomas Kidd | Jul 3, 2015 | Opinion
I have a pretty strong personal history of wrestling with the memory of the Confederacy. Having lived all over the South, I grew up hearing stories from relatives about the “Lost Cause” and how the Yankees took everything we had during Reconstruction....
