Starting a church wasn’t something Boswell ever considered doing, he said, since he has always been a pastor at established churches, including Myers Park Baptist Church for almost a decade.

Starting a church wasn’t something Boswell ever considered doing, he said, since he has always been a pastor at established churches, including Myers Park Baptist Church for almost a decade.

When Shoemaker retired from Myers Park Baptist Church, he thought his pastoral years were over. When an opportunity to serve as interim pastor at Grace came along, he felt the pull to once again work ...

President Donald Trump has both supporters and critics among Baptists. And in Charlotte, North Carolina, a pastor is being ...

Myers Park Baptist is a liberal church located in one of the most affluent and majority white neighborhoods in Charlotte. The church has a long-standing commitment to civil rights and states its ...

Myers Park Baptist Church has a rich civil rights history and sits in one of Charlotte's wealthiest neighborhoods. Image: Sam Wolfe for NPR/ Fellow Deacon Robert Dulin was more direct.

Pastor Benjamin Boswell, who was pushed out as the senior minister at Myers Park Baptist Church, is seen Sunday, Jan. 26, in Charlotte, N.C.

Pastor Benjamin Boswell, who was pushed out as the senior minister at Myers Park Baptist Church, is seen Sunday, Jan. 26, in Charlotte, N.C.

Pastor Benjamin Boswell, who was pushed out as the senior minister at Myers Park Baptist Church, is seen Sunday, Jan. 26, in Charlotte, N.C.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Sunday after Donald Trump won a second term, Pastor Ben Boswell took to the pulpit at Myers Park Baptist, a liberal church in Charlotte, and delivered the sort of blunt ...