Guard the Faith: Reimagining the National Convention, and Why It All Matters

Re-imagining the Baptist Denomination within the African-American Tradition

On a September day in 1895, in a church in Atlanta, a scattered and only recently freed people did something audacious. They built a national voice out of almost nothing. The national body cannot be everywhere, and it should stop trying to be. Its genius is not proximity but altitude, and to reclaim that genius we should first remember what it was built…