“The Phelps family represent only themselves, but we do not have a copyright on the Baptist name, so they have the freedom to use and abuse that name. As a result, Baptists everywhere are defamed by them."
A. Roy Medley
The general secretary of American Baptist Churches in the USA was speaking about Westboro Baptist Church, which recently won a Supreme Court free speech case. (ABP)
“I very much appreciate the fact that I get to be the mouth of God in this matter.”
Margie J. Phelps
The lead legal counsel for Westboro Baptist Church and daughter of pastor Fred Phelps was commenting on her church’s recent Supreme Court victory in a free speech case. (RNS)
“I’m listening for what salvation and redemption might look like. I’m listening for how grace might play out and for notions of forgiveness.”
Angela D. Sims
The professor of ethics and black church studies at St. Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Mo., has spent the past two years interviewing older African Americans about their recollections of lynchings. (RNS)