by David Emmanuel Goatley | Sep 1, 2009 | Opinion
Hurricane Katrina made landfall four years ago in August. I left New Orleans just a few days before landfall and within a few days following, the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention was communicating throughout our network to help move supplies to Louisiana,...
by David Emmanuel Goatley | Jul 15, 2009 | Opinion
In “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama,” Gwen Ifill helps people to think about the meaning of recent political achievements of black politicians who are realizing electoral success in new ways. The landscape seems to be shifting as we...
by David Emmanuel Goatley | Jul 2, 2009 | Opinion
People who believe that young people are hopeless should have been with me June 20-26 at the 55th annual Lott Carey Youth Seminar on the campus of Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C. Nearly 500 youth and their advisors spent a week for missional learning, serving,...
by David Emmanuel Goatley | Jun 5, 2009 | Opinion
Someone murdered an off-duty police officer named Mark MacPhail in Savannah, Ga., in the late 1980s. The state of Georgia convicted a man named Troy Davis and sentenced him to death in 1991. No one ever found the weapon used in the crime. No one ever found evidence...
by David Emmanuel Goatley | Apr 1, 2009 | Opinion
I have the privilege of serving on the Save Darfur Coalition board of directors. Save Darfur is a coalition of more than 180 faith and nonprofit communities committed to ending genocide in Darfur and Sudan and to ensuring peace, security, and justice in the region. ...
