Removing the Stain of Racism from the Southern Baptist Convention: Diverse African American and White Perspectives

The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has an obvious historical stain on it: namely, racism, evident by the SBC's affirmation of slavery, its fairly recent repentance of this sin in 1995, and the numerous segregated Southern Baptist churches. This stain prohibits Southern Baptist churches from embracing the one new man in Christ outlined in Ephesians 2:1122 and from participating in the new song of those saints from every tongue, tribe, people, and nation in Revelation 5:9. The glorious gospel of Jesus Christ necessitates that all Southern Baptists do their part to remove this stain from the SBC. This requires sacrifice, humility, and perseverance, along with a relentless commitment to Christian unity. Removing the Stain of Racism, edited by and contributed to primarily by African-American voices in the SBC, is one small effort to help remove the stain of racism from the SBC in pursuit of this unity in our beloved denomination.