News & Commentary About All Things Baptist

This is from the Detroit Free Press: Automakers’ woes hit black community, Baptist pastors say By JOHN GALLAGHER FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER Minority auto suppliers are being disproportionately hurt by the auto industry implosion, and that is devastating Detroit’s African-American communities, the city’s influential Council of Baptist Pastors said today. At a news conference in [...]

From Sam Hodges of the Dallas Morning News: Leaders of three major black Baptist denominations have released the following statement through the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty: This is a joint statement of the presidents of three of the predominantly African-American Baptist denominations that relate to the Baptist Joint Committee, which is composed of [...]

What is Jena 6? If you don’t know – you better read up. A snippet follows: What white Southerners still fail to realize is their complicity in some of the most vicious and effective terrorism the world has ever seen. Lynchings were only the most visible and brutal embodiments of a system to terrorize the [...]

The Washington Post has an interesting story about a rift over gay unions in an affirming African-American congregation in D.C. The decision of co-pastors Dennis and Christine Wiley of Covenant Baptist Church to conduct the union ceremony of Robert Renix and Antonio Long has caused quite a ruckus. Some members have expressed their worries that [...]