Three years after George Floyd’s death, US faith groups quietly advance racial healing
United StatesRNS Three years after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis brought crowds into the streets for a summer of protests, Christian groups are quietly launching initiatives that address the still-fraught racial divisions among their members and in the wider society. In New Orleans next week, leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, which has […]
In the US, Tennessee pastor, first African American, named to key SBC post
Nashville, Tennessee, USAP Tennessee pastor Willie McLaurin has been named interim president and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee, becoming the first African American to lead one of the denomination’s ministry entities in its more than 175-year history. McLaurin’s appointment as one of the top administrators for the largest Protestant church body in […]
Who is Ed Litton, the new Southern Baptist Convention president?
Nashville, Tennessee, USRNS In a hotly contested election decided by just over 500 votes, Alabama pastor Ed Litton was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Litton, the longtime pastor of Redemption Church in Saraland, Alabama, a congregation with 3,900 members, was considered a long shot in the presidential race. Two other candidates – Georgia […]
US evangelical leaders call on Trump to condemn the alt-right
RNS White nationalist demonstrators walk through town after their rally was closed down near Lee Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, on 12th August, 2017. PICTURE: AP Photo/Steve Helber. A who’s who of Southern Baptist leaders and some other evangelicals have written a letter to US President Donald Trump calling on him to do more to condemn […]