Minister/author sets appearances
Little Rock native Carlton Caldwell, pastor of Galilee Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis, will make several appearances in Little Rock.
Caldwell is the author of We Are All Ministers: Moving Members From Pews to Purpose and Little by Little: A Spiritual Biography, is a graduate of Horace Mann High School. A retired postal worker, Caldwell is a vice president of the Missionary Baptist State Congress of Christian Education, an auxiliary group to the Missouri Baptist State Convention.
He will sign books and lead a workshop at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Holy Cross Missionary Baptist Church, 4800 W. 12th St. in Little Rock; read from his latest book, But Now That's a Fact: Messages From the Apostle Paul, from 10:30 a.m. to noon at the Sue Cowan Williams Library, 1800 S. Chester St. in Little Rock; and will speak at the 11 a.m. service April 15 at Little Rock's First Missionary Baptist Church in Little Rock, 701 S. Gaines St., in honor of its 173rd anniversary.
Caldwell will also give a radio interview with KABF 88.3 at 11:30 a.m. Friday during the segment "The Natural State of Jazz."
Copies of But Now That's a Fact are for sale at Holy Cross Bookstore, 4800 W. 12th St. in Little Rock.
-- Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Joint service held in King's memory
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral and Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, both in Little Rock, held a joint service Wednesday at Trinity commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.
The service was held after Trinity played and then discussed recordings of King's sermons over a period of several weeks. The commemoration service is one in a number of joint services the churches have held through the years.
Trinity and Bethel entered into a covenant in the 1950s, and the declaration was renewed in 2007, according to Eartha Daniel, a member of Bethel. In May 2008, Trinity and Bethel also jointly received the Marie Interfaith Civic Leadership Award, which celebrates the fostering of relationships between churches of different racial backgrounds.
-- Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Mormon's speech subject of criticism
SALT LAKE CITY -- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is facing more criticism about its approach to sexual abuse after a top leader praised the #MeToo movement but referred to sexual misconduct as "non-consensual immorality."
Some said Monday that the remark could be interpreted as victim blaming. Quentin Cook, a member of a top church governing body, made it Sunday as he spoke about righteousness.
It was the only reference to the topic during a two-day conference despite the church facing scrutiny. A former prominent missionary leader, Joseph Bishop, has been accused of sexually assaulting two women in the 1980s.
Church spokesman Eric Hawkins declined to comment about the criticism of Cook's speech. It's common practice for church officials to let conference speeches stand without further explanation.
-- The Associated Press
Religion on 04/07/2018