The Prophets We Need

A Call for Moral Courage in the American Pulpit (Part 2 of 2)

(Rev. Fred Shuttleworth preaching, Bethel Baptist Church Birmingham, Alabama, 1954)

There's a particular kind of minister who has become all too common in American churches: the one who mistakes niceness for grace, who confuses cultural relevance with prophetic witness, who delivers sermons that comfort without convicting, that affirm without transformin…