Black Baptists Gather in Show of Unity

An estimated 10,000 African-American Baptist leaders gathered this week in Nashville, Tenn., for a historic joint board meeting of four major denominations. “You cannot microwave ox tails,” Suzan Johnson Cook of Bronx Christian Fellowship in Bronx, N.Y.,...

Black Baptist Leaders Affirm Shared Values

The presidents of America’s four major black Baptist denominations on Friday issued a joint statement opposing the war in Iraq, the confirmation of Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General and efforts to divert public funds to private schools. The leaders said they...