Messianic Truth: Yahshua is Salvation!
Reports and commentary concerning injustice, exploitation, concealed wrongdoing, vulnerable people, and the biblical responsibility to defend those who cannot defend themselves.
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 …
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 …
Jeffrey Epstein was a convicted sex offender. The DOJ has released millions of pages of Epstein-related records, and I encourage everyone to search them rather than simply accepting what politicians or the media tell them. Watch the instruction Video in a new window: How to Search the Epstein Files Search the DOJ Epstein Library Donald …
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 …
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 …
Change of heart: The Southern Baptist Convention’s Abortion Reversal (1970-1980) From Permissible to Prohibited Abstract: This essay explores the dramatic reversal in the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) stance on abortion between 1970 and 1980. Initially adopting a moderate and situationally permissive position, the SBC would by the early 1980s declare abortion tantamount to murder. This …