Source: Bill Laitner / Detroit Free Press Detroit police said they don’t believe a group of young attackers knew they had targeted a prominent Detroit pastor and gospel recording artist when they beat and carjacked him Wednesday afternoon. Marvin Winans said he was pumping gas at a Citgo station on Davison and Linwood when a [...]
Source: WXYZ.com DETROIT – Pastor Marvin Winans was robbed and carjacked at a Detroit gas station Wednesday afternoon. Winans was at the Citgo Gas Station at Linwood and the Davison when he was robbed. The carjackers robbed him and took his deep purple Infiniti QX56 SUV. The license plate number on the vehicle is 0DRT73. Detroit [...]
Two African-American pastors on opposite sides of the same-sex marriage debate talk to CNN’s Fredricka Whitfield. WATCH:
Empowerment Temple Rev. Jamal-Harrison Bryant on how black voters will view President Obama’s gay marriage backing. WATCH:
Source: Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service / USA Today Southern Baptist leader Richard Land has issued a lengthy public apology for his racially charged comments about the Trayvon Martin case, and said he has sent a personal letter to President Obama seeking forgiveness. Land, who leads the Southern Baptist Convention‘s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, issued the two-page apology Wednesday, a week after [...]
A popular pastor at a predominately black church in Cincinnati explains how he can oppose the president’s stance on gay marriage but still support him as a candidate. (May 10)
Source: Ernie Suggs and Shelia M. Poole / Atlanta Journal-Constitution The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which has gone through a period of instability at the top for nearly a decade, saw another change in leadership Friday. Isaac Farris, the ninth president of the Atlanta-based organization founded 55 years ago by his uncle, Martin Luther King [...]
Source: Avis Thomas-Lester / The Washington Post A board of trustees selected by the late Apostle Betty R. Peebles, co-founder of Jericho City of Praise in Landover, on Wednesday fired her only surviving child, the Rev. Joel R. Peebles, as acting pastor and stripped him of membership in the church his parents created more than 40 years [...]
Source: Heidi Hall / The Tennessean The Southern Baptist Convention’s top ethicist issued two apologies yesterday – one for reading a Washington Times column on his radio show without proper attribution and the other for the message it contained. Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, faced criticism for [...]
Roland Martin talks with Pastor Dwight McKissic about comments made by Richard Land against Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson’s involvement in the Trayvon Martin case. Pastor McKissic also discusses White Evangelicals silence on the Trayvon Martin case. Subscribe to the Roland S. Martin Daily Podcast via iTunes.
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