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Reflections on Martin Luther King Jr.

Reflections on Martin Luther King Jr.

by | Jan 17, 2022 | Looking Back, Slavery and Racism

I mentioned last week that I was working on a writing project for a new dictionary of Christian history. One of the entries I was assigned to write was the entry on MLK. Here is that entry King, Martin Luther Jr. (1929­­–1968) was an African-American Baptist pastor...
Baptists and Slavery in the Public Discourse

Baptists and Slavery in the Public Discourse

by | Oct 19, 2020 | Slavery and Racism

On Monday last, R. Albert Mohler of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary of Louisville, KY, where I did my doctoral work, announced that the seminary would vacate the Joseph Emerson Brown Chair of Christian Theology Mohler has held since 2005 because Brown,...