Clarence Page: Southern Baptists face turmoil over critical race theory, whatever it is
So I was only half-surprised to see the CRT dispute has even reached churches, including the internal tug of war between ultraconservatives and moderate conservatives in the very conservative Southern Baptist Convention. Charlie Dates of Chicago’ s Progressive Baptist Church and the Rev. Ralph D. West of Houston’ s The Church Without Walls, made national...
by Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency
Jun 23, 2021
3 minutes
“Critical race theory,” again?
Groan. Every time I surf the news these days, those three little words continue to pop up, even though hardly anybody, including the people who say it, seem to know what “critical race theory” or CRT, for short, really means.
So I was only half-surprised to see the CRT dispute has even reached churches, including the internal tug of war between ultraconservatives and moderate conservatives in the very conservative Southern Baptist Convention.
Two prominent Black megachurch pastors,
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