A black Oklahoma State University lecturer says he is renouncing his ordination as a Southern Baptist minister because of the racism he sees within the country's largest Protestant denomination.Other black Southern Baptist leaders acknowledged the sentiment Lawrence Ware expressed in his New York Times column, published July 17.
Minister's Departure From Southern Baptist Convention To Protest Racism
By Holly Meyer USA Today Network, The Macomb Daily
Fri, 08/11/2017 - 4:24am
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