Come to Fellowship Southwest’s first-ever conference on compassion and social justice and you won’t be asked to wear a lanyard. That’s perhaps a selling point compared to most conferences plagued by the ever-present plastic nametag holder and fabric lanyard around…
Haynes to succeed Jackson as leader of Rainbow PUSH Coalition
Dallas pastor Frederick Douglass Haynes III has been named successor to Jesse Jackson as president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. Haynes has served as pastor at Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas for 40 years, a role he will continue. The…
Fuller family establishes social justice chair at Garland School of Social Work
Charlie and Cindy Fuller of Woodway, Texas, along with their family, have committed $1.5 million to Baylor University to establish an endowed chair for social justice in the Garland School of Social Work. The gift will qualify for matching support…
10 articles on social justice you might have missed this year
Sometimes, we publish articles that are really good but draw oddly insufficient readership. Usually, I chalk this up to the whims of Facebook and Google algorithms. But as an editor and writer who is a campaigner for justice at heart,…
I’ve been following the wrong Jesus
Imagine looking for Jesus in the Antebellum South of America. Both the slave master and the slave proclaimed allegiance to Jesus. The slave master, because he believed all his wealth, wisdom and power over people he considered sub-human was a…
These contemporary icons show the saints among us in a new light
Martin Luther King Jr., Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Maya Angelou and Mister Rogers are crowned with halos in the iconography of Kelly Latimore, a Missouri-based artist whose popular works adorn a growing number of homes and sanctuaries. Depicting these and other inspirational…
The volatile concoction of social justice and sports
Mix sports fans, professional athletes, coaches, politics, race and social justice and you have a volatile concoction. Several years ago, ESPN’s The Undefeated reported on a poll exploring the “racial divide” in the NFL. The poll measured attitudes of fans…
A conservative case for why the church should lead the way in being ‘woke’
I’ve always been perplexed by my fellow conservative Christians’ overall rejection of “wokeness.” After all, the gospel is all about repentance from our harmful behaviors and a renewing of the mind. Who amongst us that has walked with the Lord…
We know the truth, and it is not setting us free
At the annual gathering of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship last week, I heard at least one speaker repeat the words of John 8:32: “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” In fact, as I recall,…