The Atlanta Metro Baptist Association has severed ties with the First Baptist Church of Decatur over what it calls a “misalignment” of biblical standards. First Baptist’s Senior Pastor David Jordan, ...
On Sunday, ministers of more than a dozen predominately-white Decatur-area congregations will read a pastoral letter of “confession” for the church’s failure to address systemic racism in the city.
Ahead of Juneteenth, leaders of local, historic African American churches reflected on the importance of the church for the Black community in Decatur. Tags ...