Black Church, White Convention: A Pastor's Story of Hope

In 2010, Liberty Hill Baptist Church, a historic black church in Cleveland, decided to join the Southern Baptist Convention after eight years of deliberation. Bringing a predominantly black church into a predominantly white convention came with many obstacles and questions that would lead both cultures on a path toward racial reconciliation.

In Black Church, White Convention, pastor Mark Louis Johnson shares his church’s journey to put racial reconciliation into action within the Southern ...