Black Christians : SBC wants to scrap resolution on critical race theory, Pastor Dwight McKissic says

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tell the truth and shame the devil Dwight

Pastor Dwight McKissic: SBC fine with black members ‘on the front porch’​

Pastor Dwight McKissic: SBC fine with black members ‘on the front porch’

Dwight McKissic Sr., one of the Southern Baptist Convention’s most outspoken black pastors, appears likely to join an exodus of other high profile black pastors out of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination because he believes black members are only allowed “on the front porch” and he’s...

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...and he’s not optimistic about the future of race relations.

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By Leonardo Blair, Christian Post Reporter

Texas pastor Dwight McKissic moved to bring his proposal on the "alt-right" to messengers Tuesday June 13, 2017. | Baptist Press/Van Payne

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Russell Moore-led ERLC a threat to SBC funding, unity report finds​

Russell Moore-led ERLC a threat to SBC funding, unity report finds

Nearly two years after a motion to defund the Southern Baptist Convention’s Russell Moore-led Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission was rejected by messengers, a new report from a task force commissioned to study the denomination’s public policy arm has found it to be a major threat to the...

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Among the concerns state executive directors of the SBC reported hearing about Moore from pastors were: Moore’s open opposition of President Donald Trump; an allegation that he received funding from an organization with ties to George Soros; an Amicus brief from the ERLC in support of a New Jersey mosque; a perception that he criticizes conservative political figures more frequently and more harshly than moderate to liberal figures; his stance on immigration; his stated support of attending homosexual wedding showers and receptions; plus giving disrespectful and condescending responses to the questions of messengers.

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By Leonardo Blair, Christian Post Reporter

Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, speaks at the MLK50 conference in Memphis, Tennessee, April 3, 2018. | ERLC/Karen McCutcheon

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Some black leaders say there's room for dissent in SBC over CRT​

Some black leaders say there's room for dissent in SBC over CRT

As a racial and ideological divide over critical race theory continues to roil the Southern Baptist Convention, two of the denomination’s senior black leaders insist the denomination is big enough to accommodate dissent.

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Friend’s church, which has a weekly attendance of 125, has also benefited from the support of the denomination during times of crisis such as in 2017 when his church was completely destroyed by a tornado.

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By Leonardo Blair, Christian Post Reporter

The Rev. Jeffery W. Friend is pastor of Suburban Baptist Church in New Orleans, La., and executive board member of the National African American Fellowship of the Southern Baptist Convention. | Suburban Baptist Church

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A 'wake-up call'? Bible teacher Beth Moore, Black pastors cut ties with Southern Baptists​

A 'wake-up call'? Bible teacher Beth Moore, Black pastors cut ties with Southern Baptists

Some say a string of recent departures should serve as a wake-up call for the network of churches, which just lost popular Bible teacher Beth Moore.

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Best-selling author and prominent evangelist Beth Moore is leaving the Southern Baptist Convention but will still be a Baptist.


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Cotton Introduces Bill to Ban ‘Critical Race Theory’ Teaching in Military​

Cotton Introduces Bill to Ban ‘Critical Race Theory’ Teaching in Military

Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) introduced a bill on Thursday that would ban the teaching of “critical race theory” in the military. The bill would ban the military and Department of Defense from promoting positions such as that the U.S. is a fundamentally racist country, that the Constitution or...

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Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.)


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