Religion News Service White evangelicals’ attacks on James Cone are about power, not truth By Andre Henry via Religion News Service A specter has been haunting white evangelicalism. It comes in the shape of James Cone, one of the founders of black liberation theology.…
William Barber Evangelicals using religion for political gain is nothing new. It is a US tradition by William Barber in The Guardian No one who has read US history can be surprised by the hypocrisy of Evangelicals for Trump but it also tells us how their…
Religion News Service Trump is no religious freedom champion from Melissa Rogers via Religion New Service "Evangelicals usually say they oppose governmental discrimination against particular faiths and support the use of uniform standards to evaluate free exercise claims. These…
Religion News Service 50 years after ‘Black Manifesto,’ religious groups take up reparations again The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. described 11 o’clock on Sunday morning as the “most segregated hour in America." This story is one in a series by Religion News Service…
Jana Riess Postcards from the Protestant decline in America by Jana Riess https://religionnews.com/2019/12/10/postcards-from-the-protestant-decline-in-america/
Religion News Service The Great American Slumbering? "Maybe the millennials are seeing what too many Christians are not. Is it possible that we are living through “The Great American Slumber,” a time when too many churches are…
Religion News Service The priest who channeled Black Power into the Catholic Church from Religion News Service Thanksgiving week began in mourning for the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago and many black Catholics, as news came that the Rev. George H. Clements passed away…
Religion News Service How colonialism still colors our ideas about who gets to teach religion by Simran Jeet Singh Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2019/11/26/the-scandal-of-a-minority-american-teaching-a-religion-not-his-own/
Religion News Service Before we can rein in hate crime, we have to admit the size of the problem by Simran Jeet Singh, Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2019/11/18/before-we-can-rein-in-hate-crime-we-have-to-admit-the-size-of-the-problem/
Religion News Service John Perkins: On race and the church, authentic friendship, considering heaven by Adelle Banks, Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2019/11/20/john-perkins-on-race-and-the-church-authentic-friendship-considering-heaven/
Religion News Service Pope Francis reflects on 3 decades of international cooperation on climate change from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2019/11/07/pope-francis-reflects-on-3-decades-of-international-cooperation-on-climate-change/
Religion News Service Harriet Tubman, in movie and real life, guided by faith in fight for freedom A new movie on the life of Harriet Tubman makes plain how the young Maryland slave put her faith before fear to rescue herself and dozens of other enslaved people.…
Religion News Service Christianity as we know it is dying. Let’s welcome the new life ahead. by Amy Butler, via Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2019/10/30/christianity-as-we-know-it-is-dying-lets-welcome-the-new-life-ahead/
Religion News Service The Overstated Collapse of American Christianity Post-Christian possibilities aren’t the only reason to qualify a narrative of secularization. Here are three points more specific to American Christianity that should be considered alongside the stark declinist story…
Religion News Service Christian aid groups vow to stay to help after US sudden withdrawal from Syria from the Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2019/10/22/christian-aid-groups-vow-to-stay-to-help-after-us-sudden-withdrawal-from-syria/
Religion News Service Three women of faith who changed America from the Religion News Service These three women — a Quaker, a Jew and a Roman Catholic — were polarizing figures who were often propelled by their faith into history.…
Religion News Service Progressives: Let’s leave room for others to make progress from the Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2019/10/21/progressives-lets-leave-room-for-others-to-make-progress/
Jana Riess, Religion News Service Billy Graham, Franklin Graham and the dangers of mixing religion and politics by Jana Riess https://religionnews.com/2019/10/15/billy-graham-franklin-graham-and-the-dangers-of-mixing-religion-and-politics/
Barbara Brown Taylor, Religion News Service Barbara Brown Taylor: Reformation is a ‘delicious’ wilderness but lonely an interview https://religionnews.com/2019/10/18/barbara-brown-taylor-reformation-is-a-delicious-wilderness-but-lonely/
Religion News Service How William Barr, culture warrior, weaponizes religious liberty from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2019/10/17/how-william-barr-culture-warrior-weaponizes-religious-liberty/
