Tag: charlie dates

Tony Evans Returns to Preaching at Progressive Church

More than a year after Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship Pastor Tony Evans announced that he was stepping away from public ministry on account of unnamed sins he committed, he has returned to the pulpit, preaching at Salem Baptist Church of Chicago, a progressive church led by Charlie Dates who once invited a Democrat

Op-Ed: A Letter to Black Pastors

(G3) In his letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr. addressed black pastors attempting to understand the civil rights movement. King understood that his rhetorical arguments would impact a much larger audience and help those foreign to the movement understand its goals.  After the Supreme Court overturned Roe,

Former SBC Pastor Accepts Job at 12,000-Egalitarian MegaChurch

Charlie Dates is the pastor of Progressive Baptist Church, Gospel Coalition contributor, and former SBC Executive Committee Panel Member. Our audience may know him from saying that the SBC “Don’t Need Black Faces with White Theology/Voices/Ideas Leading the Convention” and calling Beth Moore “one of God’s leading women in the world.”