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*Two years after the home video release of “The Blind Side,” one of the nation’s leading Christian retail chains has come under fire for pulling the PG 13-rated DVD from its shelves due to profanity and the use of a racial slur. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The Oscar-winning film was removed from LifeWay [...]
*All eyes are on Fred Luter as he officially begins his term as the first black president of the Southern Baptist Convention, says The Christian Post. While many recognize Luter’s election in and of itself as a giant step forward in racial reconciliation, they say only time will tell what kind of impact his leadership will have [...]
*The Southern Baptist Convention, a denomination born in 1845 in defense of slavery and a spiritual home to white supremacists for much of the 20th century, is poised to elect its first African-American president, says the New York Times. The Rev. Fred Luter Jr., 55, a New Orleans pastor who got his start preaching on [...]
*Four months ago, two African-American pastors stood in a hallway of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Nashville headquarters looking at a row of white faces, says MSNBC. The portraits of the 56 convention presidents since the denomination’s 1845 founding are in large picture frames holding several portraits each. The final frame holds empty slots. “They got a space for [...]
*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 [...]
*The Southern Baptist Convention, which is the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, is giving serious thought to changing its name in order to better reach people for Jesus Christ, according to the Christian Post. But changing a 166-year-old name that 16 million members reportedly identify with is expected to spark some heated debate. Emotions were already [...]
*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 [...]
*A more than 95-year-old church in Atlanta may be ousted from the Southern Baptist Convention over a woman pastor. The Rev. Mimi Walker has been serving as co-pastor at Druid Hills Baptist Church with her husband, the Rev. Graham Walker, since 2003. But earlier this month, leaders of the Georgia Baptist Convention recommended cutting ties [...]
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