Church and Culture

This section examines how religious institutions defended slavery and helped make Christianity in America a tool of white dominance. This section also examines Judeophobia in American and world Christianity.

The Southern Baptist Convention: Racist Origins, Exploited Black Labor and Political Power

The Southern Baptist Convention cannot honestly claim moral authority without confronting the racial exploitation that helped create, finance and preserve its institutions. The SBC was organized in 1845 following a denominational conflict over whether slaveholders could serve as missionaries. Its formation was inseparable from the defense of slavery—the ownership, exploitation and dehumanization of Black people. …

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Abortion Denied

Abortion, Denied Healthcare, and the Cost of Motherhood: A 50-State Review The laws governing pregnancy in America now depend heavily upon geography. A patient may possess a protected right to abortion in one state, face a six-week deadline in another, or enter a hospital governed by a total ban across the state line. For this …

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Slavery by Another Name: An Outline and Video.

Your browser does not support HTML5 video. Slavery by Another Name: The Forced Labor System That Survived Emancipation: The video. Slaveholders Had Previously Been Accepted Most Americans are taught that slavery ended with the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865. Douglas A. Blackmon’s Slavery by Another Name challenges that familiar …

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Founding of the SBC-1845

Below is a summary of the proceedings surrounding the formation of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), established in 1845 amid a sectional conflict in which slavery was a central and decisive issue. The immediate dispute concerned whether slaveholders could be appointed and supported as Baptist missionaries, but the controversy reflected the broader commitment of many …

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SBC Abuse Crisis Remains

Johnny Hunt’s Lawsuit Ends, but the Southern Baptist Abuse Crisis Remains A federal judge has dismissed the final claim in former Southern Baptist Convention president Johnny Hunt’s defamation lawsuit. Although the litigation has ended, the deeper crisis surrounding sexual abuse, institutional protection, and accountability within the Southern Baptist Convention remains unresolved. This post summarizes and …

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A 50-State Review of America’s State Constitutions

Black Laws, Racial Exclusion, and Citizenship: A 50-State Review of America’s State Constitutions The history of race in America is written not only in the United States Constitution and federal law, but also in the constitutions, statutes, convention records, legislative journals, and archives of the individual states. For this study, I reviewed historical state constitutional …

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Jesus was Never His Name

Introduction The Messiah warned that the path to life is narrow, and few there be that find it (Matthew 7:14). This is not because the way is hidden, but because it requires humility, obedience, and truth—qualities often exchanged for comfort and tradition. In that same chapter, He declares: “Many will say to Me in that …

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The Godless/Lawless Rule

Even the world knows, the end is near. And, Israel is the time clock to eternity. Shalom. Your browser does not support the HTML5 video player. End Times Fascism: A Review of Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor’s Warning The video above presents an unsettling argument developed by writers Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: that some …

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Slavery: The SBC and When Religion Defends Evil

American religious history becomes uncomfortable when we stop asking what churches called themselves and begin asking what they actually defended. European colonization displaced Indigenous peoples from their land, American slavery turned human beings into property, and after emancipation new systems such as convict leasing and Jim Crow continued racial domination under different names. The Southern …

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Restoration of Dominion

Restoration of Dominion: From Adam to the Saints The biblical teaching that the saints will judge the world is not an isolated doctrine. It belongs to a much larger biblical narrative concerning the restoration of dominion, covenant authority, righteous judgment, and the ultimate union of Messiah with His people. From Genesis to Revelation, Scripture presents …

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