via Joy105: The Texas church where more than two dozen people were killed by a gunman during Sunday services will be demolished, the pastor said. Pastor Frank Pomeroy told leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention earlier this week that it would be too painful to continue using First Baptist Church as a place of worship […]
*The number of black churches in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has surged more than 80 percent in the last decade to 3,400 U.S. congregations, says BCNN1.com. However, the number of African American missionaries remains tiny: Only 27 of the SBC’s 4,900 international missionaries are black. That’s about half a percent in a missions-minded denomination where 6.25 percent […]
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 […]
The Rev. Fred Luter Jr. well remembers the first time he ventured from his native New Orleans to preach in Crowley, a rice-growing town in the heart of Louisiana’s Cajun country. The pastor there had invited Luter to speak, but worried how the congregation would react. “I told him, ‘Just don’t put my picture up,’ […]
