Prominent Southern Baptist leaders and pastors who are partaking in this include David Platt, Thabiti Anyabwile, Ed Stetzer, and others. Thabiti Anyabwile, the pastor of Anacostia River Church in Washington, D.C., helped organize a march in the capital city.

Former Executive Director of the Southern Baptist Convention’s LifeWay Research division who now enthrones the Billy Graham Distinguished Chair of Church, Mission, and Evangelism at Wheaton College and Executive Director of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College joined the anti-police Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA protests in Chicago earlier this week at the behest of pastor of Progressive Baptist Church in Chicago, Charlie Dates.