The Southern Baptist Convention has re-elected its first black president, the Rev. Fred Luter Jr. Luter was first elected in 2012. His presidency comes at a time when the nation’s largest Protestant denomination is trying to move beyond its traditional white Southern base. The Nashville-based Southern Baptist Convention claims 16 million members, but recently announced that membership declined […]
It caused a commotion when Real Housewives of Atlanta star NeNe Leakes appeared on the November 2012 cover of EBONY. But Empowering Everyday Women editors are more concerned with the awesomeChristian names on “The Ebony 100” Power List. Very often, even when people of faith are doing significant things, they are absent from mainstream media mentions. But now, there seems […]
The Southern Baptist Convention, a denomination born in 1845 in defense of slavery and a spiritual home to white supremacists for much of the 20th century, is poised to elect its first African-American president, says the New York Times. The Rev. Fred Luter Jr., 55, a New Orleans pastor who got his start preaching on […]
Four months ago, two African-American pastors stood in a hallway of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Nashville headquarters looking at a row of white faces. The portraits of the 56 convention presidents since the denomination’s 1845 founding are in large picture frames holding several portraits each. The final frame holds empty slots. “They got a space […]
