Religion News -The Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc., led by its new President Dr. Timothy Stewart, will hold a press conference at the National Press Club on October 9.
The blatant moral hypocrisy and rancid theological heresy of the so-called Christian Right have transformed the current political and cultural crisis into a deeper spiritual catastrophe. The skewed perception of the Christian faith in the press encouraged by a liberal enlightenment bias against religion, which consistently identifies it with the most vociferously ignorant and reactionary elements in public life has led to a fundamental misunderstanding of the relationship between the Christian Faith and the Public Square. Through the alchemy of media shorthand, the White and often racist Conservative Evangelical movement get identified with the Christian faith while the Black Church’s witness is reduced to Civil Rights “lite.”
This misplaced emphasis has effectively silenced the most authentic expression of the Christian faith in the modern world as it is subsumed under the headings of either the conservative evangelical or the liberal left. But it has always been the African American Church that has led the way forward along the moral arc of American history. PNBC is explicitly and intentionally enjoining the conversation as the alternative yet the most authentic Christian voice in this critical hour. Leading the efforts will be Dr. Calvin O. Butts, Pastor, Abyssinian Baptist Church, New York, NY, who is serving as the new Chair of the PNBC Social Justice Commission.
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