Greg Warner at Associated Baptist Press has written an outstanding story about "'Baptist Covenant' offers chance to heal racial wounds." Here's a quote from Bill Leonard:
"Probably not since 1845 has this kind of effort been made to bring together Baptists black and white . . . and of diverse theological and regional backgrounds," said Bill Leonard, a Baptist historian who is dean of the Wake Forest Divinity School. "And that means it is terribly historic."Pictured above is William Shaw, President of the National Baptist Convention USA, as he was saying, "We will be addressing issues in non-partisan ways but in prophetic ways."
Robert Parham at Ethics Daily identifies New Baptist Covenanters as "Golden Rule Baptists" and has written a helpful essay about how they should address issues prophetically. Here's quote:
Golden Rule Baptists recognize that neither party is thoroughly moral nor completely immoral; that God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat.
Golden Rule Baptists favor democracy as a way to advance a moral agenda, not the theocracy embedded in fundamentalism.
Golden Rule Baptists know the need to speak with humility about applied Christianity, instead of dogmatic absolutism about the will of God in the fine print of legislation.
If I'm right about Golden Rule Baptists, who see the limits of and value to faith in politics, then we let the bullets of partisanship fly by and charge forward with the clear conscience in a commitment to the prophetic witness.
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Where are all the women? Were any invited? Women make up the majority of every Baptist church I've ever seen. So, what gives?
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