Charles Johnson Sees New Baptist Covenant Addressing Race Issue

Ethics Daily has posted an essay by Charles Johnson, Visiting Instructor of Preaching at McAfee School of Theology, that envisions the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant as marking a new day in reconciling racial divisions among Baptists. Here's a quote:

Much is at stake at this gathering. Never before has such a constellation of Baptist bodies from across our spectrum of diversity come together at the same time in the same place to prayerfully deliberate our common future and mission. Only an individual with the moral stature of former President Jimmy Carter could convene such a diverse group.

If Euro-American Baptist pastors of the South are fearful of being accused of political partisanship because Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Al Gore, all Baptist Democrats, are on the program, then we need to hear again that God has not given us a spirit of fear but of love.