Black Baptist Conventions

23+ hour, 33+ min ago   (325+ words) Terry Mattingly is the editor of GetReligion.org and Senior Fellow for Media and Religion at The King’s College in New York City. He lives in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Sports analyst Paul Finebaum is often called the voice of Bible…...

4+ day, 54+ min ago   (577+ words) RICHMOND —A little more than halfway through his trek in Maine on Tuesday, the Rev. Dr. Robert Turner already knew the walk would be physically and mentally taxing. “The walks are always long. It’s never a walk where I’m just…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (281+ words) A national traveling exhibition about enslaved people debuts in St. Paul at the University of St. Thomas. Visitors will meet the enslaved by name and learn their stories and how this history lives on today. What We Inherit: Truth, Repair,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (761+ words) In an article first published on The Conversation, JOHN HAYES looks at the origins of the term “Bible Belt” but says its use as shorthand explanation for Southern political behaviour could use some “serious scrutiny”… Via The Conversation US “Look…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (329+ words) Black people in the South were not just enduring history. They were making lives within it, building intellectual and cultural traditions and developing ways of understanding themselves and the world around them. Such forms of life challenge the tendency to…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1336+ words) What Appalachia taught an Appalachian about context, community norms, & listening before deciding what value looks like “Come as You Are.” National …...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1122+ words) Register of British Slave Traders shows clergymen financed company that trafficked enslaved Africans on hundreds of voyages Nearly 250 years after the abolitionist Ottobah Cugoano made the Christian case for reparative justice, the archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, visited the Ghanaian…...