June 3, 2012

The Rev. Fred Luter, pastor of the Franklin Avenue Baptist Church, greets congregation members during Sunday services in New Orleans. Luter is the new face of the Protestant denomination that formed over a split with its northern counterpart over the issue of slavery before the Civil War. Faced with growing diversity in the United States and declining membership in some of its churches, the denomination is making an effort to distance itself from its troubled racial past.
Gerald Herbert / AP

How Long? Not Long: Southern Baptist Convention Elects First Black President, Fred Luter

June 19, 2012by the uppity negro 1 Comment

How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. That quote from Martin Luther King at the steps of the Alabama state […]

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How Long? Not Long: Southern Baptist Convention Elects First Black President, Fred Luter

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