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Gary Frost (left), Charles Carter (center) and Richard Land address the news media following the Southern Baptist Convention's adoption of a racial reconciliation resolution in 1995. Frost at the time was the SBC's second vice president and pastor of a predominantly black congregation in Youngstown, Ohio; Carter was chairman of the Resolutions Committee and a pastor in Birmingham, Ala.; Land continues to serve as president of the SBC's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. Photo by Van Payne/courtesy Baptist Press
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(RNS3-may23) Gary Frost (left), Charles Carter (center) and Richard Land address the news media following the Southern Baptist Convention’s adoption of a racial reconciliation resolution in 1995. Frost at the time was the SBC’s second vice president and pastor of a predominantly black congregation in Youngstown, Ohio; Carter was chairman of the Resolutions Committee and a pastor in Birmingham, Ala.; Land continues to serve as president of the SBC’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.For use with RNS-SOUTHERN-BAPTISTS, transmitted on May 23, 2013, Photo by Van Payne/courtesy Baptist Press.

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