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  • Collaborative book brings together voices of women of color
    by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Wednesday, February 26, 2020 (one month ago)

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    NASHVILLE (BP) -- Listening to the voices of those not always heard through the exposition of the timeless Word of God is the heart behind editor Kristie Anyabwile's book "His Testimonies, My Heritage."

    The book brings together a historic collaboration of women of color expositing the Word of God while sharing their personal experiences and how the Bible shapes their stories, past and future. Read More

  • Greear urges unity, not uniformity
    by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Monday, February 17, 2020 (one month ago)

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    NASHVILLE (BP) -- In his plenary address during the SBC Executive Committee meeting Feb. 17, Southern Baptist Convention president J.D. Greear called EC members to unity in order to continue to focus on "Gospel Above All," his choice of theme for the 2020 SBC Annual Meeting in June -- just as it was for the 2019 SBC Annual Meeting.

    Saying his goal has been to see the Gospel mission become the defining reality of the SBC, Greear challenged them on matters of sex abuse prevention, racial reconciliation, Gospel focus, Cooperative Program efforts and missional resurgence. Read More

  • Black, white Nashville churches remember shared history
    by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, February 17, 2020 (one month ago)

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    NASHVILLE (BP) -- Nashville First Baptist Church was willed an enslaved 16-year-old Nelson G. Merry in 1840, and by 1853 had baptized, discipled, freed and ordained him to pastor the First Colored Baptist Mission, a First Baptist church plant.

    That church plant became First Baptist Church Capitol Hill, a majority black Nashville congregation led by senior pastor Kelly Miller Smith Jr. He participated Sunday (Feb. 16) in Nashville First Baptist's yearlong bicentennial celebration, preaching the morning sermon and answering questions on race relations and civil rights during a luncheon afterward. Read More

  • First black Southern Baptist church casts vision for future
    by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, February 07, 2020 (one month ago)

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    ANCHORAGE, Alaska (BP) -- It's significant that the National Register of Historic Places now honors Greater Friendship Baptist Church as the first church founded by blacks on Alaskan soil, its pastor Michael Bunton told Baptist Press Friday (Feb. 7).

    But Bunton has a broader vision for the church distinguished as the first black Southern Baptist congregation -- at least since the 19th century -- when it was founded in 1951. Read More

  • Church merger 'undivided example in divided world'
    by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, August 20, 2019 (7 months ago)

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    PORTSMOUTH, Va. (BP) -- Longtime pastor Jack Stallings determined years ago to empathetically view life from the eyes of a black Christian, a feat he says he hasn't quite achieved, being he's white.

    "A person that has helped me tremendously with that, and has probably been the single greatest contributor to whatever ability I have to be able to do that, is Rev. Lee," Stallings said of Robert Lee, installed Sunday (Aug. 18) as the senior pastor of Collinswood Agape Baptist Church, a merger of Stallings' and Lee's previous Portsmouth, Va., pastorates. Read More

  • Checklist sparks friendship, opens ministry doors
    by Bonnie Pritchett/Southern Baptist TEXAN, posted Tuesday, July 30, 2019 (8 months ago)

    Photo by Bonnie Pritchett
    STOWELL, Texas (BP) -- Sammy Little looked down at the checklist in his hand. One empty box on the spiritual goals inventory he and thousands of men gathered at the 1995 Promise Keepers conference had been asked to take glared back at him.

    "One of them was race related," said Little, pastor of First Baptist Church of Stowell in southeast Texas. The rural town is just south of Vidor and Jasper, communities with tense racial histories. Read More

  • Lincoln Bingham, 87, remains active interim pastor
    by Chip Hutcheson/Kentucky Western Recorder, posted Monday, July 01, 2019 (9 months ago)

    Lincoln Bingham, 87, remains active interim pastor
    Lincoln Bingham, 87, has officially retired as pastor of St. Paul Baptist Church at Shively Heights -– a church merger that made national news 10 years ago -- but he's still in the pulpit there and in the office most every day during the week.

    LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- Lincoln Bingham has officially retired as pastor of St. Paul Baptist Church at Shively Heights, but he's still in the pulpit there and in the office most every day during the week.

    At age 87, he serves as the interim at St. Paul -- the church in Louisville, Ky., that made national news in 2009 when an African American church, St. Paul Missionary Baptist, merged with an all-white church, Shively Heights Baptist. Read More

  • Path to reconciliation focus of 'Advocates'
    by Brandon Elrod, posted Wednesday, June 26, 2019 (9 months ago)

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    ATLANTA(BP) -- Dhati Lewis remembers flipping through election night coverage on television, Nov. 8, 2016. He felt captivated by the news cycle as the results started pouring in.

    Lewis recalls that night in his new book "Advocates: The Narrow Path to Racial Reconciliation" and remembers a common theme that moved him deeply: "our country is divided." Read More

  • Greear on race: Past sins, present consequences
    by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, June 17, 2019 (9 months ago)

    Photo by Van Payne.
    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- Sociology professor, researcher and author George Yancey always steps back when he knocks on a door. A 6-foot-3-inch African American, he says his appearance strikes societal fear.

    Seminary assistant dean and director Missie Branch says she also encounters difficulties because she is an African American woman. She says she's either overlooked or viewed through stereotypes "which results in fear where everything I do and say or wear is a big deal." Read More