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*The Rev. Fred Luter knew that his election as the first African-American president of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination would make headlines, reports the Montgomery Advertiser. But he couldn’t have predicted the whirlwind that his life has become over the past two months. “It’s been nonstop, it’s been engaging, it’s been enlightening,” Luter said this [...]
*The Rev. Fred Luter Jr. well remembers the first time he ventured from his native New Orleans to preach in Crowley, a rice-growing town in the heart of Louisiana’s Cajun country, reports The Los Angeles Times. The pastor there had invited Luter to speak, but worried how the congregation would react. “I told him, ‘Just [...]
*For the first time in the history of the Southern Baptist Convention, a Black man has been elected into the 1st vice president position. According to the Associated Press, the SBC elected Fred Luter to the position on Tuesday at their annual conference in Phoenix. The 54-year-old Luter has been the head pastor of an [...]
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