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A Baptist blogger on bad race relations Fred Clark, a progressive Protestant blogger, as been writing his Slacktivist blog for over 20 years. This is one committed Christian who is not a racist, or a sexist, or a homophobe. His usual subject is the abuse of power, including persuasive power, by the conservative Christians among whom he grew up and went to school. In this latest post, he links a story about the Chapel Hill Bible Church, which has lost some 200 members, substantially non-white and female, over its leadership on matters of gender, race, culture, and employment policy, including much bullying and discriminatory treatment of women employees. In addition, Pastor Jay Thomas refused to acknowledge minority members concerns about the January 6th uprising and its threat to their rights in a letter to the congregation , which sent many minority congregants heading to the exits. The church, especially the white chur...