After 51 years in the pulpit of First Baptist Church of Atlanta, Charles Stanley has stepped down. Here is Atlanta Constitution-Journal: On Sunday, the 87-year-old Stanley announced to the congregation that he was stepping down and turning the reins over...
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Stone Mountain: Monument to white supremacy
Rebecca Onion writes at Slate: “The Confederate memorial carving at Georgia’s Stone Mountain is etched with more than a century of racist history. But tearing it down won’t be easy.” Here is a taste of her piece, “Hatred Set in Stone“:...
Evangelicals Gather at Ebenezer Baptist Church to Address Racism and Promote Racial Reconciliation
Evangelicals will gather in Atlanta this weekend to commemorate 400 years since “20 And odd Negroes” landed on Virginia shores and introduced African slavery to British North-America. The event is sponsored by One Race, an organization that “exists to displace...
Returning to the Roots of the Civil Rights Tour: Day 2
Read previous posts in this series here. The Returning to the Roots of the Civil Rights Tour rolled into Atlanta yesterday. We made three major stops. First, we visited the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Non-Violent Social Change on...