by Greg Horton | Apr 23, 2012 | News
A Southern Baptist Convention agency board announced last week plans to investigate charges of plagiarism against Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC). “[W]e are reverently mindful of our obligations to the ERLC, Southern...
by Starlette Thomas | Apr 13, 2012 | Opinion
I have struggled with the concept of race since my early teens. Though race, racism, stereotypes and prejudices have been and continue to be used as a rationale for the ways of American society and its citizens, it was never justified for me. Race did not and remains...
by Wendell Griffen | Apr 11, 2012 | Opinion
Richard Land, the official public voice of the Southern Baptist Convention, has denounced civil rights leaders who join other people of good will in challenging the failure of Florida officials to arrest and aggressively prosecute George Zimmerman, the man who killed...
by Robert Parham | Mar 5, 2012 | Opinion
Almost a quarter century after a Southern Baptist Convention agency board member called Martin Luther King Jr. a fraud and said apartheid was “beneficial,” the SBC may well elect its first African-American president: Fred Luter, pastor of Franklin Avenue...
by Chuck Warnock | Feb 22, 2012 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This is part two of a two-part series. Read part one here. Almost 50 years ago, a Baptist minister stood before a sea of hopeful people in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial to share the dream God had given him. On that day, Dr. Martin Luther King...
