By Bob Allen Last Sunday, July 29, would have been the 100th birthday of Clarence Jordan, a Southern Baptist minister — well known for his Cotton Patch Bible translation — who died in 1969. A month-long celebration of his legacy…
Church refuses to marry black couple
By Bob Allen A Mississippi couple claims they were not allowed to get married in the Southern Baptist church they attend because they are black. According to WLBT television in Jackson, Miss., Charles and Te’Andrea Wilson had already printed and…
Black Baptist named chapel dean at Duke
By Bob Allen An ordained Baptist minister and Princeton Theological Seminary professor has been named the first African-American dean of the chapel at Duke University. Luke Powery, 38, the Perry and Georgia Engle assistant professor of homiletics on the Princeton…
Black Baptist named chapel dean at Duke
By Bob Allen An ordained Baptist minister and Princeton Theological Seminary professor has been named the first African-American dean of the chapel at Duke University. Luke Powery, 38, the Perry and Georgia Engle assistant professor of homiletics on the Princeton…
Jimmy Carter: Prison reform issue of race
By Bob Allen Former President Jimmy Carter says the disproportionate number of African-Americans who are incarcerated is a remaining vestige of racism in the United States. “When the black Baptist leaders speak out and say what do Baptists need to…
Jimmy Carter: Prison reform issue of race
By Bob Allen Former President Jimmy Carter says the disproportionate number of African-Americans who are incarcerated is a remaining vestige of racism in the United States. “When the black Baptist leaders speak out and say what do Baptists need to…
Race and intentionality, then and now
By Bill Leonard In his recent book Moses, Jesus and the Trickster in the Evangelical South, University of Colorado history professor Paul Harvey describes the South “as a land of paradox and contradiction.” “How else, for example, can one grasp…
‘The Blind Side’ removal brings backlash
By Bob Allen LifeWay Christian Resources’ recent decision to no longer stock The Blind Side DVD on bookstore shelves has struck a nerve with Christian authors. Rachel Held Evans, who was asked by Thomas Nelson Publishers to remove the word…
The politics of race
By Miguel De La Torre At 53, I am old enough to remember a pre-Civil Rights era when all types of shenanigans were employed to prevent certain groups of people (predominantly African-Americans) from voting. Heavily populated black districts would elect…