I find myself, like so many other people, trying to make sense of the stories of racial injustice that have filled my world and the narrative of my country, my people, and my communities. Often I wonder how it could still be happening.
After the passage of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, American settlers transformed the wilderness of the Northwest Territory into “a more perfect union.”
On April 12, 2019, Sagamore scholar Rev. James White joined the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in hosting a talk entitled “The Lingering Effects of Lynching on your Ministry: An Untold Story.” This talk explores the ongoing effects that lynching, or sin of any sort, has on the proclamation of the gospel. Rev. White reminds us that “whenever [we] use words like ‘lynching’… we often miss that what happens in history is very much today.”