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Article: Cheap grace: preaching and church politics.(National Baptist Convention U.S.A.)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- November 5, 1997
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Why did you all vote to forgive Henry Lyons?" was the first question I faced after returning from the September meeting of the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc. But the more troubling subsequent question was: "How could you all vote to keep him in office in the face of such charges?" These were the same questions that were troubling me, so much so that I left Denver with a mile-deep depression, not sure how to make sense of what had happened. And they have bothered others as well. The convention's actions have been a major source of concern within the black community, from barber and beauty shops to corporation office suites.
Lyons's supporters left ...