The Progressive National Baptist Convention named Thomas L. Bowen its new general secretary Jan. 22. Bowen follows Kendrick E. Curry, who served as interim in the role after Timothy Tee Boddie. Tyrone S. Pitts is general secretary emeritus. The Progressive…
America’s founding rejected a king and a state religion, Raushenbush and Bowen say
Juneteenth and Independence Day offer models of the kind of religious freedom America should embrace, according to Interfaith Alliance President Paul Raushenbush. “On July Fourth in 1776, the Founders declared independence from a king who was given absolute power because…