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All photos taken in this photo gallery are by Brandon Markin.
Judge (and pastor) Wendell Griffen speaks truth to power with clear, incisive language, the kind of words that raise howls of protest. But it’s not the racism and discrimination Griffen has faced all of his life that makes him controversial. It’s that he chooses not to live silently within the confines of American culture’s white, male, conservative rules about women, race and sexual orientation.
Read more in the Wendell Griffen series:
Racially diverse church occupies campus where Baptist pastor once proclaimed racist views
Photo Gallery: Wendell Griffen
Related commentary at baptistnews.com:
White Baptists and racial reconciliation: there’s a difference between lament and repentance | Wendell Griffen
Gov. Northam is not an outlier: American Christianity’s tolerance for white supremacy | Wendell Griffen
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This series in the “Faith and Justice” project is part of the BNG Storytelling Projects Initiative. In a 1967 address to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Martin Luther King Jr., exhorted people of faith to “realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” We tell the compelling stories of the people and organizations that are helping to bend the “arc of the moral universe” toward justice and, in so doing, are transforming the communities where they live.
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