Former President Jimmy Carter recently called a meeting of key Baptist leaders together to organize a convocation that could explore unifying the Baptist witness in North America. Conspicuously absent was any representation from the Southern Baptist Convention.
A convocation is being planned for 2007. Authentic Baptists are rising to reclaim their identity as a community of faith from the fundamentalists that have taken over the Southern Baptist Convention.
Southern Baptists have become "Christian nationalists" and theocrats who are increasingly viewed an appendage of the GOP. They have defamed the name of Baptists and have destroyed the credibility of the Baptist witness by becoming the chief apologists for pre-emptive warfare and imperial evangelism.
Authentic Baptists will emphasize our "obligations as Christians to promote peace with justice, to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care for the sick and marginalized, welcome the strangers among us, and promote religious liberty and respect for religious diversity."
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