Forced out of his pulpit weeks after Trump's election, he's starting his own church

Forced out of his pulpit weeks after Trump’s election, he’s starting his own church

(RNS) — Nearly six months ago, Ben Boswell gave a sermon begging members of his Charlotte, North Carolina, church not to give up after Donald Trump’s election. “We may not have been able to stop the darkness from coming,” he told members of his liberal church on Nov. 10. “But that does not mean the fight is over. It has only just begun.” Two weeks after giving that sermon, he was forced to resign as senior pastor of Myers Park Baptist Church, in…

Forced out of his pulpit weeks after Trump's election, he's starting his own church

(RNS) — Ben Boswell promises his new church will ‘dismantle systems of oppression and create justice, equity and freedom for everybody — for all people.’