Pride Month provides Baptists another opportunity to reflect on our commitment to equal rights. Just how expansive – or restrictive – is our full inclusion of all human beings? As Baptists, we have made great strides and have often provided stellar...
1921 is personal to me. It is personal for two reasons. 1921 is the year of my mother’s birth in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Had she lived, she would be 100 years old this coming September. My mom used to say, “If you don’t’ know who you are and where you come from, you’ll...
In 1971, Marvin Gaye released Inner City Blues. Those of us old enough to remember may recall his song “Makes Me Wanna Holler…” We may also lament that it has been fifty years and far too little has changed for far too many People of Color since the release of this...
One of the first steps in the journey toward Beloved Community is to take our own experience of baptism seriously by following Jesus as he walks wet into the world. Each of the synoptic Gospel writers is clear in telling us that after Jesus’ own baptism, his first...
“Black Baptist Women in Ministry and the Principality of Patriarchy” As we march into Women’s History Month, I’ve been thinking about women in ministry, particularly Black Baptist women in ministry. This area is especially near and dear to me as my wife, the...
