Stories tagged with: george floyd

• FIRST-PERSON: How U.S. protests affect European missions

  by Lucas Wilburn*, posted Wednesday, June 24, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

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  As the COVID-19 crisis seems to wind down in Europe, many Europeans are angry, scared and confused, an IMB worker says, adding: "As missionaries, we can provide some life-changing answers." Read More

• Pastors comfort mourners, exhort churches at George Floyd funeral

  by Diana Chandler, posted Wednesday, June 10, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  Screen capture from KPRC-TV Houston

  HOUSTON (BP) -- Speaking comfort to mourners at the June 9 funeral of George Floyd, Houston pastor Ralph Douglas West posed the question: "Where was God in all of this?"

  Where was God when Floyd repeatedly begged for breath in the last 8 minutes and 46 seconds of his life? Where was God when Floyd was declared dead after his neck was pinned under police officer Derek Chauvin's knee? Read More

• FROM THE STATES: Virginia church holds community prayer service; Louisiana Baptists remain faithful amid pandemic

  by Staff, posted Wednesday, June 10, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  First Baptist Roanoke hosts community prayer service in response to racial tensions; Louisiana Baptists remain faithful during social, economic storm. Read More

• Officer charged in Floyd's death held on $1 million bail

  by Steve Karnowski, posted Monday, June 08, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  Cedric Hohnstadt via AP

  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A judge on Monday kept bail at $1 million for a former Minneapolis police officer charged with second-degree murder in George Floyd's death.

  Derek Chauvin, 44, said little during an 11-minute hearing in which he appeared before Hennepin County Judge Jeannice M. Reding on closed-circuit television from the state's maximum security prison in Oak Park Heights. He wore a mask and handcuffs as he sat at a table, where he answered yes or no to routine housekeeping questions and confirmed the spelling of his name and address. He did not enter a plea, a step that usually comes later in Minnesota courts. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: It starts at home

  by Todd E. Brady, posted Monday, June 08, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  "I can't draft national policies ... or write enough columns to change anybody's mind," Todd Brady says, "but I can ... teach what is right and good to the boys in my house." Read More

• Confederate monuments' removal praised by Southern Baptists

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, June 05, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  Photo by Philip N. Young

  RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- As a child growing up in Virginia, Marshal Ausberry never understood it. Why were monuments to Confederate soldiers prominently displayed in public spaces across his state?

  "To see the Confederate flag and these larger than life statues to over-romanticized Confederate heroes of the Confederate South strewn throughout Virginia constantly reminded me that there were people who were willing to fight, bleed, sacrifice and die to keep black people chained into a system of brutality and bondage," said Ausberry, who pastors Antioch Baptist Church in Fairfax Station, Va., and is first vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Read More

• Baptists join diverse group of faith leaders in Chicago march

  by Diana Chandler, posted Wednesday, June 03, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  Screen capture from NBC

  CHICAGO (BP) -- They gathered in Chicago's historic Bronzeville neighborhood at the Great Northern Migration Monument, which was erected to honor the African American diaspora from the Jim Crow South of the 20th century.

  Pastors and rabbis led throngs Tuesday (June 2) in a peaceful march that stretched nearly 30 blocks, crying out for justice for George Floyd and an end to historical injustice against blacks. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Lament, listen, love, lead

  by Willie McLaurin, posted Wednesday, June 03, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  We cannot be silent about racism, Willie McLaurin says. We cannot be silent about injustice, and we cannot be silent about the Gospel that teaches that all racism is a sin. Read More

• Cities erupt in more violence as Trump decries 'lowlifes'

  by Zeke Miller and Matt Sedensky, posted Tuesday, June 02, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  Photo by Matt Slocum/AP

  WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Tuesday turned up the pressure on governors to quell the violence set off by the death of George Floyd, demanding New York call up the National Guard to stop the "lowlifes and losers."

  As cities around the U.S. witnessed a seventh consecutive night of both peaceful demonstrations and bursts of looting, vandalism and attacks on police – the attacks included multiple officers shot in several cities – the president amplified his calls of a day earlier, in which he threatened to send in the military to restore order if governors didn't do it. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: We must not be silent on racism

  by Ronnie Floyd, posted Tuesday, June 02, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  These recent days in American life have truly been difficult, Ronnie Floyd says, listing the senseless death of George Floyd and the subsequent violence of a few. He calls Southern Baptists to commit to eradicate racism. Read More