Southern Baptist summit calls pastors to work against racism
Southern Baptists did not mince words about their racist past during a two-day summit in Nashville devoted to making churches more diverse.
During the first half hour of the conference, the Southern Baptist Convention’s top ethics leader acknowledged that the denomination’s heritage included preaching family values while splitting up the families of black slaves.
“Our heritage comes to us through a trail of blood, but not all of it is Christ’s blood, and some of it cries out from the ground right now,” said Russell Moore, president of the SBC’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.
