Spiritual Empowerment
Calling All Authors
The Conference is interested in supporting its authors. Writers are invited to give us your name, book titles and where they can be purchased (no description needed).
Send to Rev. Belinda Sledge at bsledge@soc-ucc.org or the editor with "author of book" in the subject line.
An initial sharing of this data will be reported in next week's e-News.
4 Reads for Black History Month
by C. L. Stumb, editor
Book 1 - White Too Long
"This book puts forward a simple proposition: It is time -- indeed, well beyond time -- for white Christians in the United States to reckon with the racism of our past and the willful amnesia of our present." -- p. 5 (Kindle edition)
"Southern white Christians, particularly Baptists, played a critical role in justifying a particularly southern way of life, including what they sometimes referred to as the "peculiar institution" of slavery. Central to this story, but not widely known, are the efforts of the Reverend. Dr. Basil Manly Sr. born into a wealthy North Carolina plantation family in 1798."
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"Manly was acknowledged as one of the most uncompromising religious voices supporting slavery. Manly first issued a call for a new seminary for Baptists in the South in 1835 while he was serving as pastor of Charleston Church in South Carolina." -- p. 34 (Kindle edition