When one of his parishioners ran for U.S. president, Otis Moss III and his church received threats of violence. Those threats of “We’re going to kill you” still haunted him years later when he heard a noise in his home…
Remembering Professor Claypool
This past weekend, Crescent Hill Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky., hosted “Glad Reunion: Celebrating the Ministry and Legacy of John R. Claypool.” Claypool had famously served the church as pastor throughout the turbulent 1960s and became a renowned pulpiteer in…
‘Listen before you preach,’ Godsey says at McAfee Founders Day
The power of preaching lies not in how well one speaks but in how well one listens, Kirby Godsey told students, faculty and staff at Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology Aug. 23. Godsey, former Mercer president, delivered the annual…
America will be better as gumbo than a melting pot, scholar says
Americans can undermine white supremacy and Christian nationalism by emulating the values and actions of the Good Samaritan, Jonathan C. “Jay” Augustine said March 29 to open the Walter B. and Kay W. Shurden Lectures on Religious Liberty and Separation…
McAfee names prominent pastor to preaching faculty
Otis Moss III has been appointed professor of homiletics at Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology, where he has been a visiting professor. Moss also serves as senior pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago and recently was…
Hayes named BNG Clemons Fellow
Amy Hayes of Atlanta has been named Baptist New Global’s third Clemons Fellow, continuing the launch of a graduate-level fellowship begun in June. Hayes is a master of divinity student at Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology, where she also…
In a COVID world, seminaries prepare pastors for new digital realities of ministry
While churches have adapted to new digital realities brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, seminaries also have adapted to train ministers how to lead in new ways, both online and in-person. “I think it behooves us in terms of faculty…
DeLoach confirmed as McAfee School of Theology dean
After serving in an interim role for more than 18 months, Gregory DeLoach has been named dean of Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology. Prior to being named interim dean in 2018, DeLoach served as a development officer for Mercer’s…
Seminarian, CBF and Georgia church find fellowship together
Seminarian Wallace Montgomery III is brand new to the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and to the moderate Baptist movement — things he didn’t even know existed until last spring. But the 35-year-old Arkansas native already is planting roots in CBF life….