The Power We’re Missing: Re-imagining Baptist Cooperation

The African American Baptist tradition holds one of the most compelling stories in Christian history. It is time to organize that story into cooperative power.

Walk into almost any Black Baptist church on a Sunday morning and you will encounter something that has no real parallel in American religious life. The music reaches into something ancient. The preaching still carries the weight of a tradition that sustained a people through centuries of unspeakable suffering. The fellowship is genuine, and the theolog…