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By Lindsay Bruehl Friendship-West Baptist Church and Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas hosted their third annual "A King Teach In" at Friendship-West Baptist. This is part of our covenantal relationship, formed in part with help from New Baptist Covenant, to work...

The myth and dream of MLK and the Civil Rights Movement Every year for the past five years, I’ve written a reflection for MLK Day. Each year it is a time not just for reflection on the church and our society but also for my growth. What have I learned? What are the...

“Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Covenant of Action partners in the DC metro area want to empower people to serve their communities by understanding the importance of the U.S. Census. “Everybody matters,” says Rev....

Just a few days ago, a 16-year-old Guatemalan boy died in a Border Patrol facility. He was the sixth migrant minor to die while in U.S. custody after being apprehended at the border without a guardian.  Just a few weeks ago, we began the season of Advent. It is the...

This year has been a busy one for our Covenant of Action partners throughout the United States as they came together to work for racial justice and reconciliation in their communities. Some began working through painful histories, while others...

December 3rd is #GIVINGTUESDAY -   December 3rd is also the anniversary of the publication of Frederick Douglass’ publication “The North Star” in 1847. The North Star was known for its stalwart stand against racial injustice. Douglass was one of the major anti-slavery...

By LIndsay Bergstrom “I wish you could all see yourselves.” That’s how Dr. David Anderson Hooker began his sermon as he took the pulpit on Sunday, Oct. 20, where congregants from two First Baptist churches in Macon — one black and the other white — came together to...

I belong to that part of the Baptist family — American Baptist Churches USA  (ABC-USA) — which takes great pride in its denominational racial ethnic diversity. Our denomination, with almost 1.5 million people and around 5,700 churches, is said to be the most racially...

By Aidsand F. Wright-Riggins  It was 100 years ago that the worst massacre in the state of Arkansas, and arguably the worst racial massacre in United States history, took place in the small, rural town of Elaine. More than 230 African Americans were brutally killed...

By Hannah McMahan King There once was a little bird that lived in a big forest. The little bird made its home high in the branches of a tall tree at the edge of that forest.  One day the forest caught fire. Panicked, the little bird flew to the sea to get water to put...