The Southern Baptist Church was formed to support slavery disguised as religion. So, I cannot imagine why people are surprised when …

A week before the convention a very popular black Southern Baptist minister from Texas, Dwight McKissic, wrote an essay condemning the white nationalism of the religious right.  This shook the leadership of the SBC to the core.  And when he showed up at the convention with a resolution condemning the behavior of the right, they tried to destroy it in committee.

He kept fighting to bring it up on the floor.  He was joined by other black ministers who decided to stand with Jesus on this matter.

“The amount of work left to do in ‘evangelical’ (who knows that means any more?) church is staggering,” tweeted Thabiti Anyabwile, a black Southern Baptist pastor who was not at the meeting. “Here’s the largest failing publicly.” He went on:

We must be clear: We live in a time when equivocating on these matters furthers the sin of racism even to violence and death. …

Any “church” that cannot denounce white supremacy without hesitancy and equivocation is a dead, Jesus denying assembly. No 2 ways about it. …

I’m done. With this Twitter spiel. With “evangelicalism.” With all the racist and indifferent nonsense that passes as “Christian.”

This is a church that waited until 2016 to ask their members to stop flying the confederate battle flag.

In the end, the resolution, with minor adjustments, passed, but only because Richard Spenser and the white nationalists praised the Southern Baptist for their first reaction to stomp it down which caused several ministers to threaten to withdraw from the SBC.

I am reminded that truth to power is a fierce warrior.