#american baptist churches usa

[baptist-denominations-poll]

American Baptist Churches USA

Canadian Baptists of Ontario and Quebec

Image: First Baptist Church of Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii (ABCUSA)

[hypatiawilde]

SBC: Is Rick Warren Right About Female Pastors?

Rick Warren cherry-picks and bends verses to support his assertions that there can be female pastors. The SBC hardly has firmer ground to stand on. What a joyous mess to watch from outside the confines of southern baptist dogmas.

Did you know the Southern Baptist denomination was founded to protect the institution of slavery? In 1845, Baptists in the northern United States decided that Baptist slaveowners could not function as missionaries. Baptists in the South took that as an affront and a threat to their livelihoods – dependent upon owning other human beings – and so broke from American Baptist Churches USA. You’ll see…

[nando161mando]

🚨COMMUNITY ALERT🚨 The Westboro Baptist Church is targeting Mag.Pi, the store where Laura Ann Carleton was murdered by Christian fascist Travis Ikeguchi over a Pride flag. They will be rallying at the Mag.Pi storefront as well as several other locations throughout the Lake Arrowhead community this weekend. On Saturday, they’ll be at Mag.Pi. Sunday and Monday they’ll hit multiple other spots in the community.

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[rabbitcruiser]

Charleston surrendered on February 18, 1865.

[whatisonthemoon]

Evangelicals unaware inaugural event was sponsored by Unification leader (2001)

By Todd Starnes, January 23, 2001

WASHINGTON (BP)–Evangelical leaders, including many Southern Baptists, were unaware that the Jan. 19 Inaugural Prayer Luncheon for Unity and Renewal was sponsored and by Sun Myung Moon, founder of The Washington Times and the Unification Church.

The prayer luncheon, held in Washington, featured more than 1,400 of the nation’s leading ministers, civic and political leaders. A delegation of Southern Baptist leaders was in attendance, including SBC President James Merritt, Executive Committee President and Chief Executive Officer Morris H. Chapman, and Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission President Richard Land.

Other Southern Baptists in attendance were Paul Pressler of Houston, Houston pastor Ed Young of Second Baptist Church and Prestonwood Baptist Church pastor Jack Graham from the Dallas area.

“I was shocked to see that Sun Myung Moon was on the program and in essence, the host,” Chapman said. “I was even more surprised on the way out of the banquet hall to be given a propaganda book on the Unification Church.” Merritt, who delivered a tribute to evangelist Billy Graham, said he was stunned to learn that the event was sponsored by Moon’s church.

“We knew that it was going to be an interdenominational event, but we had no idea that the luncheon was hosted by the Moonies,” said Merritt, pastor of an Atlanta-area church. “My invitation to the event came through Doug Wead.”

Wead, a former White House senior staffer for George Bush, was one of the organizers of the luncheon. In his invitation to Merritt, no reference was made of Moon’s participation or sponsorship. Wead could not be reached for comment.

“I didn’t even see the program until I got there,” Merritt said. “I had no idea this was the nature of the meeting. I believe this incident will teach us to be a little more judicious.”

Pressler, a Baptist layman who played a key role in launching the conservative resurgence within the SBC, said he, too, was surprised.

“This was completely unanticipated,” Pressler said. “I was not pleasantly surprised by the focus of the luncheon.”

The luncheon featured such well-known evangelicals as Jerry Falwell, the Urban Alternative’s Tony Evans, and Trinity Broadcasting Network’s Paul Crouch. Former National Evangelical Associational President Don Argue also supported the event.

The luncheon included an address from Moon as well as complimentary copies of one of his books and other Unification Church materials.

Once Merritt realized the intent of the luncheon, he decided to use his time to honor Graham as an opportunity to share the gospel message.

“It did give me and several others a chance to preach and share the gospel,” Merritt said. “So hopefully, we took what could have been a bad situation and used it for good.”

Chapman said Merritt handled the situation admirably.

“The redeeming feature was the strong witness to the saving power of Jesus Christ given by Dr. Merritt and other Christian guests,” Chapman said.

Pressler, too, said he was pleased with Merritt’s handling of the event.

“Dr. Merritt was superb,” Pressler said. “He was able to use his time on the platform to not only honor Billy Graham, but share the gospel.”

Chapman said the experience “will serve to remind evangelical Christians that the world increasingly is filled with wolves in sheep’s clothing.”

https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/evangelicals-unaware-inaugural-event-was-sponsored-by-unification-leader/

[mikkeneko]

I decided to make this its own post for two reasons: one, I didn't want to derail a post that is about Judaism with a discussion of a different faith and two, it was really only one of several posts I've seen recently that stuck out to me as being "man, this is way off-base."

This is not so much about "people are saying mean things about this religion and it hurts my feelings!" but it is definitely about "people are making statements that represent a wildly skewed and inaccurate picture of the reality, and I can't tell whether they're being hyperbolic on purpose or think they're genuinely telling the truth." This is not a question of whether any given church is good or bad; this is a question of whether there is or can be a distinct entity that serves as a single unified church or faith in American Christian tradition (spoiler: No.)

Here's the basic message: Any discussion of "the Christian god" or "the Christian faith" or "American Christianity" needs to be taken with a big honking asterisk that there is no single portrayal of God, or Christianity, or spirituality and faith that conveys accurate information about the entire breadth of American Christianity.

There is no single American Christian Church. None. The single biggest branch of American Christianity, Southern Evangelical Baptist, makes up at its broadest 30% of all American Christians (12% of the overall population.) The rest are split between Catholic, Methodist, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Pentecostal, Adventist, Congregationalist, and a dozen other even tinier branches, before you even get into the more far-out variants that people have ongoing arguments as to whether they even really count as "Christian." (LDS, Unitarians, and possibly Mennonites fall into this category.) Most of the major branches share a lot of common ground, but there's an enormous amount of variation -- they disagree widely on concepts such as the existence or nonexistence of Hell; the mechanics of conversion or salvation; the requirements of baptism or confirmation; whether prostylezation is required, encouraged or even permitted; what kind of sexualities are or are not accepted; God as an active or non-active role in the world; how 'sin' works or if it's even a thing; the existence or not of saints; the divinity or not of Christ; or even the idea of an anthropomorphic God at all. Some are progressive, some are fundamentalist, some are fundamentalist in ways that are completely at odds with the popular perception of what those fundaments are. I personally know one Methodist pastor who also believes and teaches about God as a "oneness of the universe" and have met others who conceive of God as "that which spans the space between the limits of our understanding and the limits of our universe." You cannot categorically state that all American Christians share a common notion on any of these topics.

Other statements I've seen recently that just made me go "what? no?"

That the USA was founded by religious extremists and That's Why America is Like That. Only one or two of the original settlements were founded for this purpose. Some were founded with an explicit purpose of total freedom of (or from) religion; others were entrepreneurial ventures with nothing to say on the topic of religion at all. When the guiding documents of the American state were put together the clause of freedom of religion was included front and center precisely because they didn't want religious extremists to be steering the ship.

That the majority of USAmericans are in cults and don't even realize they're in cults. This requires both an extremely broad definition of “cult” (to encompass pretty much any branch of Christianity, not only the more extremely evangelical ones) and severely over-estimates how many people in the US are practicing Christians (less than half.)

That the "Christian God" is intended to function as a "Great Uniter" into which other faiths can be folded; This is not a Protestant thing. Most Protestant faiths are not syncretic to the degree Catholicism is (or at all,) since there wasn't a motivating political entity backing their creeds to make them so. Again: Not all branches of American Protestantism require, encourage, or even permit prostylezation.

On that note: Not all Christians are Catholic. This isn't news, right? People know this, right? This is one of those things that I always assumed was very common knowledge, and was very surprised to run into people who were not aware of this (who either think that all Christians or Catholic, or else that Catholics are not Christian at all, depending on which side of the equation they're approaching from.) Protestant and Catholic Christianity are very very distinct entities both spiritually and politically, and in the USA, Catholic Christianity is a minority religion and is mostly (though not exclusively) practiced in minority demographic communities. Of 46 presidents so far only one has been Catholic, and a lot of the opposition to JFK's appointment was people being suspicious of his Catholicism since it was thought that his loyalty to the Church might supersede his loyalty to the US. American Christianity is mostly Protestant, not Catholic, and Protestant Christianity does not function at all the way Catholicism does. We had a whole Reformation about this. Any take that refers to "The Church" in America as a single united entity that dictates theology to its outreaching branches is... off-base.

What certainly is true is that a number of individual churches in the US have organized around the aim of consolidating social and political power, have worked at advancing their members to positions of power in order to protect and promote their interests, and thus are over-represented and have outsized influence on the political sphere. The ones that do this, as well as the ones that put emphasis on proselytizing and on money-making, tend to self-select for being the most visible and infamous because their business model is expansive by nature. That's certainly the case for the SEB in the American South, or the LDS in Utah. I really get the feeling when people use these broad terms that they are thinking either of the SEB (again, not even a majority among American Protestants!) or of the Catholic church (even less so!)  But not only do not all Americans agree with those beliefs, they don't even agree with each other.

[oksurethisismyname]

Hiiiii as a queer person living in the Bible Belt of the USA, I’m envisioning a “Christian trauma AU / general theology AU” because you know my main focus is always Sanji. This assumed that we’re in the USA, modern era, and I guess maybe a college or post grad AU for how they meet each other? This is a lonnnnnnnng text post so scroll at your own risk. To keep it from being toooo long I’m also sticking to east blue crew.

Hear me out:

There are a million different sects of Christianity so we’ve got a ton of angles to use.

Garp is catholic (but think FRENCH laïcité instead of American Amy Coney Barret Supreme Court justice weird catholic cult), Dragon straight up rebels against the strict structure and goes about his atheist ways. Neither of them really raise Luffy anyway so 💁🏻

Luffy ends up being agnostic. It’s not that he doesn’t believe in a higher power but he knows he needs to take action and that he can’t rely on a higher power to fix the problems of the world. Very Albert Camus, revolting against the absurd and holding himself to a higher responsibility in life

Zoro comes from a Shinto or Buddhist background. He’s not judging anyone’s religious beliefs unless they’re harming others.

Nami has religious trauma from the Baptist church that set up in her town and made it impossible to be herself. Belle Mere is so clearly queer and she’s harassed and dies at the hands of some zealous bigots who were emboldened by the words of the local Baptist church pastor (Arlong)

Ussop comes from a chill Protestant background (maybe Presbyterian?) But he’s more of a CEO (Christmas Easter Only) in terms of actually attending any sort of church. Honestly, with his dad out of the picture and his mom dying, he just had bigger things on his mind like living every day.

Finally, Sanji. Oh boy, Sanji has major “Quiverfull movement Christian” trauma from Judge. For those who don’t know, quiverfull is a Christian extremist movement where the idea is to have as many kids as possible and adhere to very strict purity rules and gender roles. Contraception isn’t allowed. Women wear long skirts and non fitted shirts to hide their womanly form (ew), and most of the time these parents homeschool there kids to avoid the “temptation” or “impurity” of modern society.

Judge had these 5 kids who he’s raised in this faith but Sanji never liked how Judge treated his mom. Why was Sora supposed to be “seen and not heard?” Why was it ok for his brothers to use scripture to bully and hurt and spread hate? Why would a loving god create women just to subjugate them? Judge wouldn’t like this, and once Sora passes away (probably because Judge wouldn’t let her seek medical care post birth of the quadruplets, so her health deteriorated for years), Judge locks him up and makes him do all sorts of horrible “prayer” and “repentance” practices, which are really just abuse.

Sanji would maybe escape when they go into town to get something mundane like a printer or a new wifi router (which only judge is allowed to use the internet). He’d probably bolt first chance he gets and when he meets Zeff, Zeff can recognize the signals of abuse. He takes Sanji in and even though Sanji never believed women were less than men, he still has years of trauma and gender roles beaten into him that he has to unpack.

His choice to cook? That’s a huge rebellion. Wearing tight fitting suits that look sinful? That’s a middle finger to his dad. He always treats women like goddesses because he feels so much guilt for the sins of his father. When he finally joins the Strawhats, he’s so overwhelmed with how free and nonjudgmental they are (of important stuff, obviously they’ll still poke fun at small stuff) that he feels comfortable dropping little comments here and there, opening up.

Ussop will be comforting Nami about something and sanji will tell him is so refreshing to see a man be so nurturing. He goes to Ussop often, asking how he’s so confident sharing his emotions.

Nami will be ordering them around and he’ll do everything she says with a smile, just happy to see her free to do what she wants (which is be a bossy bitch)

Zoro will talk about Kuina one night and Sanji will sob, overwhelmed with joy that she got to have all that strength and a friend like zoro even when faced with hurtful gender expectations.

Luffy above all is the most jarring for him. He grew up hearing about sin and sinners and temptation and evil but when he sees Luffy doing his thing, taking down bad people, fighting for the underdog, he knows that if there is a God (he she it they? Who cares), Luffy is doing their work.

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Bonus Gay Cherry on top is that Sanji meets Iva and gets into drag, starts performing, does some events, and through that gender liberation is able to find some peace in who he is, tucking away all the hate he was born into. And he ends up with zoro the end bye

[kemetic-dreams]

Jo Ann Gibson Robinson ,unsung activist (April 17, 1912 – August 29, 1992) was a civil rights activist and educator in Montgomery, Alabama.Known for initiating the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, AL, USA

Born near Culloden, Georgia, she was the youngest of twelve children. She attended Fort Valley State College and then became a public school teacher in Macon, where she was married to Wilbur Robinson for a short time. Five years later, she went to Atlanta, where she earned an M.A. in English at Atlanta University. After teaching in Texas she then accepted a position at Alabama State College in Montgomery. It was there she joined the Women's Political Council, which Mary Fair Burks had founded three years earlier. In 1949, Robinson was verbally attacked by a bus driver for sitting in the front "Whites only" section of the bus. Her response to the incident was to attempt to start a protest boycott. But, when she approached her fellow members of the Woman’s Political Council with her story and proposal, she was told that it was “a fact of life in Montgomery.” In late 1950, she succeeded Burks as president of the WPC and helped focus the group's efforts on bus abuses. Robinson was an outspoken critic of the treatment of African-Americans on public transportation. She was also active in the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church.

The Women's Political Council had made complaints about the bus seating to the Montgomery City Commission and about abusive drivers, and achieved some concessions, including an undertaking that drivers would be courteous and having buses stopping at every corner in black neighborhoods, as they did in European areas. After Brown vs. Board of Education, Robinson had informed the mayor of the city that a boycott would come and then after Rosa Parks arrest, they seized the moment to plan the boycott of the buses in Montgomery.

On Thursday, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to move from her seat in the African area of the bus she was travelling on to make way for a white passenger who was standing. Mrs. Parks, a civil rights organizer, had intended to instigate a reaction from white citizens and authorities. That night, with Mrs. Parks permission, Mrs. Robinson stayed up mimeographing 52,500 handbills calling for a boycott of the Montgomery bus system. The boycott was initially planned to be for just the following Monday. She passed out the leaflets at a Friday afternoon meeting of AME Zionist clergy among other places and Reverend L. Roy Bennett requested other ministers attend a meeting that Friday night and to urge their congregations to take part in the boycott. Robinson, Reverend Ralph David Abernathy, two of her senior students and other Women's Council members then passed out the handbills to high school students leaving school that afternoon. After the success of the one-day boycott, African citizens decided to continue the boycott and established the Montgomery Improvement Association to focus their efforts. The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. was elected president. Jo Ann Robinson became a member of this group. She had denied an official position to the Montgomery Improvement Association because of her teaching position at Alabama State. She served on its executive board and edited their newsletter. In order to protect her position at Alabama State College and to protect her colleagues, Robinson purposely stayed out of the limelight even though she worked diligently with the MIA. Robinson and other WPC members also helped sustain the boycott by providing transportation for boy-cotters.

Robinson was the target of several acts of intimidation. In February 1956, a local police officer threw a stone through the window of her house. Then two weeks later, another police officer poured acid on her car. Then the governor of Alabama ordered the state police to guard the houses of the boycott leaders. The boycott lasted over a year because the bus company would not give in to the demands of the protesters. After a student sit-in in early 1960, Robinson and other teachers that had supported the students, resigned their positions at Alabama State College. Robinson left Alabama State College and moved out of Montgomery that year. She taught at Grambling College in Louisiana for one year and then moved to Los Angeles and taught English in the public school system. In Los Angeles she continued to be active in local women's organizations. She taught in the LA schools until she retired from teaching in 1976. Jo Ann Robinson was also a part of the bus boycott and was strongly against discrimination.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

The only Republican in my entire extended family is my Cuban cousin on my dad's side who bought into the American Dream. She goes to Disney World two or three times a year, she works with someone who works with someone who has access to Ron DeSantis's inner circle, she has 2½ kids and lives in an HOA-approved-pastel McMansion with a two car garage and a big lawn and a white picket fence in Suburbia, USA, and she goes to an evangelical baptist church every Sunday. She hasn't spoken to the rest of my family in years because we made the mistake of being poor and having disabilities; she won't fraternize with the riff raff. She's the daughter of an immigrant, but she's white on the inside, the 30-something poster children of what One of the Good Ones™ should look like in the eyes of conservatives.

Meanwhile, my mom's entire family are white southern protestants, born and raised, so you'd think they'd be even crazier, but they all range from Clinton-worshiping liberals to LGBT anarcho-communists. One of my cousins married a doctor whose parents are hardcore Catholics, but he seems pretty well adjusted (his parents threatened to boycott the wedding when they told them they would both be taking a hyphenated last name). We all live in the far corners of the country, so we only meet up for reunions once every four or five years, but we never have any political or religious arguments. We're an okay bunch, all things considered.

[jesuswasgayandtrans]

Musings About Christianity and Stuff I Guess #1

Haven't been active on Tumblr in a while but decided to make a new blog about Christianity and stuff. I'll probably discuss various aspects of liberation theology, queer theology, progressive Christianity, as well as American Protestantism in general.

I'll mostly be keeping this blog anonymous but I will say, I'm a trans nb lesbian who was raised in the Southern Baptist Convention, deconverted as a teen, and recently reconverted and joined a (socially and theologically) liberal/progressive congregation in a liberal urban region in the American Baptist Churches USA.

Now to the actual musings. Been thinking about baptism today. I just have some deeply held belief that credobaptism by immersion is correct. I'd almost not want to join a church that baptizes infants and/or by sprinkling or pouring. (I'm very comfortable at my current church, I merely mean this as an example.) I understand that hasn't been the historic practice of the Church, the Scripture is definitely somewhat ambiguous here, and I definitely want to tend to err on the side of ecumenism, but I also feel uncharacteristically steadfast in my position on this. I just can't imagine being the pastor or deacon of a church that baptizes infants, you know? I obviously think pedobaptism is valid in that i wouldn't have someone rebaptized if they were baptized as an infant, but it's definitely not my preference. Idk, should I have talked about something more feministy for my first post? It's just what came to mind lol.

[banji-effect]

We, the undersigned organizations, write to express our urgent concern regarding dire and escalating violence in Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territory, which continues to result in significant human suffering and loss of civilian life.

We condemn all violence against civilians by Hamas and the Israeli military. In this critical moment, we believe it is imperative that U.S. policymakers take measures to immediately de-escalate the violence to prevent the further loss of civilian life. We urge Congress and the Administration to:

Publicly call for a ceasefire to prevent the further loss of life;

Prioritize the protection of all civilians, including by urgently securing the entrance of humanitarian aid into Gaza and working to secure the release of hostages; and

Urge all parties to fully respect international humanitarian law.

We implore Congress and the Administration to abstain from rhetoric that exacerbates violence and to unequivocally condemn all violations of international law. Over the last several days, the Israeli government has cut all food, fuel, and humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip. On October 12, Israel issued an evacuation order for the entire northern Gaza Strip, telling residents to evacuate south of Wadi Gaza. This amounts to approximately 1.1 million people. The U.N. is calling for this order to be rescinded, warning it will have “devastating humanitarian consequences.”

We again urge Congress and the Administration to publicly call for, and help to facilitate, an immediate ceasefire to prevent the tragic loss of more innocent Palestinian and Israeli lives. Thank you for your urgent consideration.

Sincerely,

Alliance of Baptists American Baptist Churches USA American Friends Service Committee American Muslims for Palestine Americans for Justice in Palestine Anera Arab American Institute Auburn Theological Seminary Center for Civilians in Conflict Center for Jewish Nonviolence Center for Victims of Torture Church of the Brethren, Office of Peacebuilding and Policy Churches for Middle East Peace Common Defense Council on American-Islamic Relations Demand Progress Democracy for the Arab World Now The Episcopal Church Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Fellowship of Reconciliation Freedom Forward Friends Committee on National Legislation Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect Grassroots International Historians for Peace and Democracy If Not Now Institute for Policy Studies New Internationalism Project International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN) Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Jewish Voice for Peace Action Just Foreign Policy Justice Democrats Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention MADRE Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns Mennonite Central Committee U.S. Minnesota Peace Project MPower Change Action Fund National Council of Churches National Iranian American Council Neighbors for Peace Nonviolent Peaceforce PAX Pax Christi USA PC(USA) Office of Public Witness Peace Action Project on Middle East Democracy Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft Quixote Center ReThinking Foreign Policy Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights RootsAction September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows Sojourners The Duty Legacy The Unitarian Universalist Association The United Methodist Church - General Board of Church and Society The Zomia Center United Church of Christ United for Peace and Justice UNRWA USA Women for Weapons Trade Transparency Working Families Party World BEYOND War Yemen Freedom Council Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation Yemeni Alliance Committee

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Initial Pairs

Polls start dropping tomorrow!

American Baptist Association VS Interstate and Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptist Association of America

American Baptist Churches USA VS Canadian Baptists of Ontario and Quebec

Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists VS Canadian Baptists of Western Canada

Baptist Bible Fellowship International VS Baptist Missionary Association of America

Baptist General Conference of Canada VS Independent Baptist Church of America

Canadian National Baptist Convention VS Southern Baptist Convention

Converge (previously Baptist General Conference) VS North American Baptist Conference

Cooperative Baptist Fellowship VS Alliance of Baptists

Enterprise Association of Regular Baptists VS Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada

Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada VS Southwide Baptist Fellowship

Fellowship of Independent Reformed Evangelicals VS Sovereign Grace Fellowship of Canada

Foundations Baptist Fellowship International VS Venture Church Network (formerly Conservative Baptist Association of America)

Fundamental Baptist Fellowship Association VS Old Regular Baptists

General Association of Six-Principle Baptists VS General Association of Regular Baptist Churches

Holiness Baptist Association VS Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship

Independent Baptist Fellowship International VS Confessional Baptist Association

National Baptist Convention, USA VS National Baptist Convention of America International

National Missionary Baptist Convention of America VS Progressive National Baptist Convention

National Primitive Baptist Convention of the U.S.A. VS Central Baptist Association

Original Free Will Baptist Convention VS National Association of Free Will Baptists

Primitive Baptist Conference of New Brunswick, Maine, and Nova Scotia VS General Association of General Baptists

Progressive Primitive Baptists VS Primitive Baptist Universalists

Separate Baptists in Christ VS Kindred Associations of Baptists (AKA General Association of the Baptists)

Seventh Day Baptist General Conference VS New Independent Fundamentalist Baptist

Ukranian Evangelical Baptist Convention of Canada VS Union of Slavic Churches of Evangelical Christians and Slavic Baptists of Canada

Union of French Baptist Churches of Canada VS Covenanted Baptist Church of Canada

United American Free Will Baptist Church VS United American Free Will Baptist Conference

(Due to some categories having odd numbers of denominations, a handful will be dropped into the preliminary heats later on. If you don't see your fave, that's probably why!)

[lboogie1906]

Shaw University is a private liberal arts HBCU in Raleigh. Founded on December 1, 1865, it is the second oldest HBCU in the South, after Clark Atlanta University. It has been called the "mother of African-American colleges in North Carolina" as the founding presidents of North Carolina Central University, Elizabeth City State University, and Fayetteville State University are all Shaw alumni. The founder of Livingstone College studied at Shaw before transferring to Lincoln University. What became NCATSU was located on Shaw's campus during its first year. Shaw boasts many “firsts”: the first college in the nation to offer a four-year medical program, the first historically HBCU in the nation to open its doors to women, and the first HBCU in North Carolina to be granted an “A” rating by the State Department of Public Instruction. Dr. Paulette Dillard serves as the University's 18th President. It is affiliated with the General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina and is a member of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. It was a co-founding member of the NCAA Division II's CIAA Conference, the oldest African American athletic association. The university has won CIAA championships in Football, Basketball (women's and men's), Tennis (women's and men's), and volleyball. The school was founded by the American Baptist Home Mission Society. Henry Martin Tupper and his Bible study students constructed a two-story church, with one story for the church, and one for the Raleigh Institute, where he taught freedmen. By 1915, supported by the American Baptist Home Mission, the school had 291 students, evenly divided between men and women. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #hbcu https://www.instagram.com/p/Cln5w6xrKyW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rabbitcruiser]

American Civil War: Union forces entered Atlanta on September 2, 1864, a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city, ending the Atlanta Campaign.

[whatisonthemoon]

Moon at the National Prayer Breakfast

In 1974, in the midst of Moon’s “Forgive, Love, Unite” campaign and rallies in support of Nixon, Rev. Moon was invited to speak at the National Prayer Breakfast organized by the secretive political and religious organization, the Fellowship. The C-SPAN aired “National Prayer Breakfast” is an annual event held in Washington DC that brings together government officials, religious leaders, and other prominent figures to pray and discuss issues of national and international significance.

This Fellowship is known for influencing Washington’s leaders and for support and participating in covert operations all over the world to influence high-profile figures and, through such figures, the masses. According to a complaint filed by 13 pastors in the early 2000s, referring to the Fellowship as “a secretive religious group that operates a congressional boardinghouse near the US Capitol might have used money from a terrorist organization to fund overseas trips for certain members of Congress.” 

As reported in UC publications, a “post-breakfast rally at Lafayette Park brought out Edward and Tricia Nixon Cox, the son-in-law and daughter of 37th U.S. President Richard Nixon, who greeted well-wishers who rallied to ‘Forgive, Love and Unite’ as an answer to the Watergate Crisis.” This was around the time Moon was able to meet with Nixon, reportedly telling him, "Don't knuckle under to pressure. Stand up for your convictions."

When Moon spoke to the National Prayer Breakfast, his address was not his usual rambling about God’s providence of restoration or “convex and concave” but rather a simple message of gratitude for the event. That being said, it was not without controversy for a messiah claimant to be speaking to the USA’s foremost Christian leaders.

The Unification Church's involvement with the National Prayer Breakfast was widely criticized by religious and political figures who felt that the event was opportunistically being used by Moon and his organization. Some argued that Moon's theological teachings, which included a belief in his own messianic nature, were incompatible with traditional Christian beliefs and therefore did not belong at a prayer breakfast that was supposed to be ecumenical in nature. Vocal opponents included Billy Graham, who openly questioned the theological teachings of its founder, Rev. Sun Myung Moon.

One of the most prominent critics of the Unification Church's involvement with the National Prayer Breakfast was the late Rev. James Robinson, an evangelical leader who was a strong opponent of Moon and his theology. Like others, Robinson accused Moon of using the event to promote his own agenda and to gain political influence in the U.S. He also criticized the close relationship between Moon and members of the Reagan administration, who were often in attendance at the National Prayer Breakfast and were reportedly paid to give speeches in support of Moon and his organizations. Many members of the Reagan administration, including Attorney General Edwin Meese and White House Chief of Staff James Baker, were reportedly close to Rev. Moon and his followers, were often seen at the National Prayer Breakfast. In the 1980s-2000s, to look around the National Prayer Breakfast was to witness a room full of the USA’s top leaders who had at one point been paid by Moon.

The Moon organization (a phrase to describe this multi-tentacled network of organizations) continued to participate in the National Prayer Breakfast into the early 2000s, and to some degree have a presence through their Washington Times’ reps, though their involvement gradually declined over the years. In 2001, the Unification Church’s organizations launched the Inaugural Prayer Luncheon for Unity and Renewal, which featured respected Evangelical figures, such as the Southern Baptist Convention's President James Merritt and Ed Young of Second Baptist Church. Rev. Moon also had a chance to speak. There was even a tribute to Billy Graham. 

[jackomaha]

Dick Cheney's Kids ~ American Kids Kenney Chesney remix

American Kids

Doublewide Quick Stop midnight T-top Jack in her Cherry Coke town Momma and Daddy put their roots right here 'Cause this is where the car broke down Yellow dog school bus kickin' up red dust Pickin' us up by a barbed wire fence M-tv on the RCA No A.C in the vents

We were Jesus save me, blue jean baby Born in the USA Trailer park truck stop, faded little map dots New York to LA

We were teenage dreamin', front seat leanin' Baby, come give me a kiss Put me on the cover of the Rollin' Stone Uptown down home American kids

Growin' up in little pink houses Makin' out on living room couches Blowin' that smoke on a Saturday night A little messed up, but we're all alright

Baptist church parkin' lot, tryin' not to get caught Take her home and give her your jacket Makin' it to second base, but sayin' you went all the way

Monday afternoon at practice Sister's got a boyfriend Daddy doesn't like Now he's sittin' out back, 3030 in his lap In the blue bug zapper light

Dick Cheney's Kids

. Six o'clock psy-op post church i-hop . hey did you see that touchdown? . Dulles & Poppy wrote the new frontier . in the dust of those lone nut's rounds . cover-up conspiracy dairy queen delivery . callin you a kook for what you seen . DoD to the CIA . No justice for the feds

. Damn 'em trans fats tasty! masked-up baby! . Approved by the FDA . trailer full of brown kids, Diddy got the black book . Big bucks for Ukraine

. It was deep state schemin', blizzard flippin' . Elon come give me my chip . Hurry up on that starship good shit . New world colonial trysts

. TRANSIN' UP ALL OUR CHILDREN . TAKIN' WAY ALL OUR FREEDOMS . Trollin' the libs on mama's free rent . I'm 34 and I need a new life (hey!)

. Tiktok brainrot, just tryna get my dick sucked, . Got her snapchat now give it some practice. . Thinkin' she-uh big slut, left opened on a screenshot . whole team just seen my penis

. THIRD WORLD WANTS SOME FREEDOM, time to imperialize . Now Uncle Sam smokin packs . Bibi bawling on his lap . for the good israeli proxy fight