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Arlington pastor Dwight McKissic receives racist letter after leaving Southern Baptists of Texas Convention
The letter comes on the heels of a resolution McKissic disagreed with and comments about Vice President Kamala Harris by a Rockwall pastor.
Pastor Dwight McKissic poses at his Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington on Wednesday, February 3, 2021. McKissic is considering leaving the Southern Baptist Convention after a history of racial tension, underscored by comments pastors have made this month about Vice President Kamala Harris, calling her Jezebel Harris. (Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer) to include additional comments from McKissic.
A prominent Black pastor has left the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention, and its parent group, the Southern Baptists Convention, could be the next to see him walk out the door.
In this undated file photo, the Rev. Dwight McKissic of Arlington speaks in the chapel at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. | SWBTS / Margie Dolch, File
Outspoken African American Southern Baptist Convention Pastor Dwight McKissic, who threatened to leave the SBC over a dispute about critical race theory, recently received a letter that disparaged blacks and urged the convention to “bid them goodbye and good riddance!”
The letter in question was authored by John V. Rutledge, an author who is no longer part of the SBC. The controversial document was sent last Monday and addressed to McKissic, who pastors Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas.
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A Black Pastor Received a Horrifyingly Racist Letter When He Announced He Was Leaving the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention
February 2, 2021
Pastor Dwight McKissic of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas has a long history of fiercely opposing strains of white nationalism that have poisoned the Southern Baptist Convention. He’s been a vocal critic of a recent statement from the SBC’s White seminary presidents that condemned Critical Race Theory as incompatible with SBC doctrine, and announced that his church would be leaving the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention over its inaction on racist sentiment within the convention. Now, he’s revealed a shockingly racist letter he received from John V. Rutledge after announcing his church’s decision to cut ties.
Texas pastor Dwight McKissic moved to bring his proposal on the alt-right to messengers Tuesday June 13, 2017. | Baptist Press/Van Payne
Dwight McKissic Sr., one of the Southern Baptist Convention’s most outspoken black pastors, appears likely to join an exodus of other high profile black pastors out of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination because he believes black members are only allowed “on the front porch” and he’s not optimistic about the future of race relations.
The idea behind the front porch relationship, he explains in an interview with Word & Way’s Brian Kaylor, is borrowed from a scene in Regina King’s new film “One Night in Miami,” currently available on Amazon, and which he recently viewed with his wife and adult children.