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  • The quiet desegregation of Glorieta Baptist Assembly

    by Daniel Porter/The Baptist New Mexican , posted Tuesday, July 21, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    SANTA FE, N.M. (BP) -- Many Southern Baptists are familiar with Annie Armstrong, founder of the Woman's Missionary Union and the namesake of the North American Mission Board's annual Easter offering. Fewer know of Annie Filmore, a 20th century pioneer of Baptist missions, who was initially denied fellowship with Armstrong's WMU because of the color of her skin.

    Between 1920 and 1960, WMU held varying and sometimes conflicting positions on race relations in the United States. As early as 1927, WMU leaders took a public stand against lynching. In 1940, WMU trained Black women for ministry within their respective churches. However, in a 1946 issue of WMU's Royal Service magazine, the organization rejected desegregation as "unreasonable." Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: United amid our diversity
    by Javier A. Chavez, posted Monday, July 06, 2020 (4 years ago)

    As a Hispanic and as an American citizen, Javier Chavez believes it is still possible to achieve unity in the midst of our diversity and shares a personal story as an example. Read More

  • Racial reconciliation not a 'finished project' 25 years after historic resolution
    by David Roach, posted Friday, June 19, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    NASHVILLE (BP) -- Charles Carter chaired the Resolutions Committee that led the Southern Baptist Convention to repent of racism and make a historic push for racial reconciliation at the 1995 SBC annual meeting in Atlanta. But what may have been his most significant act of racial reconciliation that summer occurred after he returned home to Birmingham, Ala. Read More

  • African American leaders call for Southern Baptists to stand together in unity
    by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Wednesday, June 17, 2020 (4 years ago)

    NASHVILLE (BP) -- Calling the racial unrest roiling the nation "spiritual warfare," and saying "unless hearts change, nothing will change in America," Philadelphia pastor K. Marshall Williams urged Southern Baptists to stand together in unity against injustice.

    "The world is waiting for us to come together," said Williams, senior pastor of Nazarene Baptist Church of Philadelphia. "Because Beloved, truth be told, this is just a dress rehearsal for when we get around the throne. I think maybe God is stripping us. I don't know about you, but this has been a stripping time for me, a pruning time for me, a time in the refiner's fire, that God would see what He really has as far as the church of the Lord Jesus Christ."v Read More

  • SBC Executive Committee to host conversation 'On Race in America'
    by BP Staff, posted Tuesday, June 16, 2020 (4 years ago)

    NASHVILLE (BP) – As the country navigates a season of extreme turbulence, Ronnie Floyd, president and CEO of the SBC Executive Committee, plans to host a conversation on race Wednesday (June 17).

    "A 60-Minute Conversation: On Race in America," featuring five African American pastors and spiritual leaders, will be broadcast live at 11 a.m. CDT on the Executive Committee's Facebook page. Read More

  • Racial unrest ushers in Gospel-centered college evangelism, discipleship
    by Tobin Perry/Southern Baptist Texan, posted Monday, June 15, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    AUSTIN, Texas (BP) -- Mitchell Johnson, The Austin Stone Community Church collegiate pastor, has addressed the nation's racial turmoil by offering his students biblical insight on the topic.

    Johnson, along with other church leaders throughout the United States charged with leading and mentoring college students, hasn’t had the option to ignore racial topics over the last month. Students have often been at the forefront of the protests that erupted after George Floyd’s death on May 25. Read More

  • NASCAR bans Confederate flag from races, venues
    by Dan Gelston, posted Thursday, June 11, 2020 (4 years ago)

    AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack
    DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- For more than 70 years, the Confederate flag was a familiar sight at NASCAR races. During the civil rights era and right on through the season opener at Daytona last February, the flag dotted infield campsites and was waved in grandstands by fans young and old.

    But as the nation -- and at last, NASCAR – wrestles with race relations in the wake of the death of George Floyd while in police custody, the flag is no longer welcome in the stock car series. Read More