The Texas Baptist Crucible

Part 1 of a conversation with Jason Barnes and his wife, Susan Bertoti. They met at TBC in the mid 90s. Jason and Susan were instrumental in dragging me back into all of this.

More on LBT and race, including an actual sound clip of Bob Gray Sr. denouncing interracial marriage and my response to it.

The conversation with James Michael Sobolik-Williams brought up a lot of old memories for me, too, and I wanted to share them before giving my further evaluation of LBT and its views on race from a biblical perspective.

A candid conversation about race and racism at the Longview Baptist Temple, but also a story of God's grace and human resiliency in overcoming.

A word about this title Bob Gray Sr gave to himself--the Man of God. Along with other silly hypocrisies.

What it was like to grow up at LBT being a person of color in what was pretty much an old southern culture and mindset.

LBT took everything to the extreme. Even this niche Baptist teaching that originated in Tennessee in the mid 19th century. Are you in the bride, brother?

Part 3 of a great conversation I had with Levi. If you haven't heard the first two yet, go back and listen to them first. Then come back. Now. Ready for an hour of straight truth telling?

Another in this series in which I try to help the people who grew up at LBT to know where the church came from, how it got there and why it believed and behaved the way that it did, as well as trying to explain the church to someone who has never experienced anything like it before.

Just when you think you've reached the limits of absurdity...think again. From haircuts to dress codes to what is worldly and what isn't. We covered all that and more in this episode. And if you don't hear all the laughter, that's because the AI filtered a lot of it out.