by Robert Parham | Apr 22, 2009 | Opinion
An award-winning documentary and a panel of Baptists of color will headline the Baptist Center for Ethics’ annual luncheon at this year’s General Assembly of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship scheduled for July 2 in Houston, Texas. BCE will offer a...
by Brian Kaylor | Apr 20, 2009 | News
Among the breakout sessions at the recent Baptist Border Crossing were two showings of EthicsDaily.com’s documentary “Beneath the Skin: Baptists and Racism.” Following both showings, panelists discussed how Baptists could work to cross racial borders and answered...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Apr 2, 2009 | Opinion
“For (Moses) had married a Cushite.” (Numbers 12:1) The minds of people of color are at times so colonized and their eyes so accustomed to seeing reality through the lens of the dominant culture, that the hope of any liberation seems futile. No longer...
by Ircel Harrison | Mar 17, 2009 | Opinion
Doing some cleaning and rearranging at our house, I came across a paper I wrote when I was in college. OK, I haven’t saved all the papers I wrote in college or seminary, but this is a very special paper to me. In 1965, I was a senior at the University of...
by David McCollum | Mar 13, 2009 | News
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—During a recent racial unity worship service at Pulaski Heights Baptist Church, Carolyn Staley was feeling nostalgic about the civil rights movement. An admonition from Steven Arnold, pastor of St. Mark’s Baptist Church, and a glance at the...
