Since this morning, when we first recorded our broadcast of To the Point, the Southern Baptist Convention elected its first black president. The Rev. Fred Luter said, "That I can be president of the largest Protestant denomination in the country is unbelievable." He is a black preacher from New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward. The denomination he'll be leading was born before the Civil War in defense of slavery. Resisting integration, it was a bastion of white supremacists through the civil rights movement and into the 1990's.
Southern Baptist Convention Elects Its First Black President
Credits
Guests:
Erik Eckholm - New York Times -
@eckholm,
Dwight McKissic, Sr. - Cornerstone Baptist Church,
David Emmanuel Goatley - Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention,
Josef Sorett - Columbia University -
@josefsorett,
Amy Black - Wheaton College
Host:
Warren Olney
Producers:
Christian Bordal,
Caitlin Shamberg,
Lata Pandya