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June 2020

June 07, 2020

Why Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel

by Christina Littlefield Some of you may have considered me harsh recently in calling out...

June 07, 2020

White People of Faith Who Affirm #BLM: How Ya Doing??

While researching for our book, The Struggle Over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter,...

June 04, 2020

Deferred Dreams: The Consequence of Misaligned Personhood in America

by Rev. Wallis C. Baxter III, Ph.D. What happens to a dream deferred? Does it...

June 01, 2020

Not Training but Character

Back in 2015, I wrote a piece on this blog about the shooting death of...

February 2020

February 13, 2020

The Imprecatory President

by Sam Perry In the afterglow of an impeachment acquittal and coming off a State...

December 2019

December 20, 2019

The “Immoral Character” of a President

The leading evangelical magazine Christianity Today shocked the political world by publishing an op-ed that...

November 2019

November 26, 2019

Call for Submissions: A Womanist Rhetorical Vision for Building the Beloved Community

Journal of Communication and Religion Special Issue: A Womanist Rhetorical Vision for Building the...

July 2019

July 16, 2019

Tyler Perry and the Rhetoric of Madea

by Katherine Whitfield and Andre E. Johnson Industry leaders recognize Tyler Perry as one of...

July 04, 2019

Christianity Should Not Be Cruel

by Sam Perry As a professor, I have had students debate with one another whether...

June 2019

June 25, 2019

Freedom Faith: The Womanist Vision of Prathia Hall

Courtney Pace, Freedom Faith: The Womanist Vision of Prathia Hall, (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019)....

June 25, 2019

Mother Emanuel, Black Pain and the Rhetoric of Forgiveness

by Andre E. Johnson and Earle J. Fisher On June 17, 2015, white supremacist Dylann...

May 2019

May 02, 2019

“Here I Am Send Me”: The Rhetoric of African American Religious Call Narratives

Our Founder and Editor, Andre E. Johnson, Ph.D. is guest editing a special issue of...

October 2018

October 20, 2018

New Book in R3 Book Series on #BLM and #ALM

The R3 book series is pleased to announce the publication of The Struggle Over Black Lives...

June 2018

June 17, 2018

Dislocations and Shutdowns: #MLK, #BLM and the Rhetoric of Confrontation

On April 4, 2018, America commemorated the 50th year anniversary of the death of Martin...

June 12, 2018

From the Mountain Top and Beyond: The Rhetoric of #MLK 50 Years Later

I am pleased to announce the publication of this special issue of the Journal of...

June 09, 2018

New Book in R3 Book Series on Desegregation and African American Citizenship Rights

The R3 book series is pleased to announce the publication of Desegregation and the Rhetorical Fight...

June 04, 2018

Special Issue: Communication, Religion, and Race in America

I am pleased to announce that the Spring 2018 special issue of the Journal...

May 2018

May 31, 2018

The Most Dangerous Negro in America

by Andre E. Johnson and Anthony J. Stone, Jr. On April 4, 1968, on a...

April 2018

April 11, 2018

A Critique of #MLK’s Theory of Non-Violence

University of Memphis Communication grad student and activist Earle J. Fisher gave a lecture on...

March 2018

March 16, 2018

The Fallacy of Racial Reconciliation

Unrolled thread from @aejohnsonphd #MLK50 #BlackLivesMatter #WhiteChurchQuiet #EmptyThePews Donate to the Work of R3 Like...

March 10, 2018

Black Folks Get Woke on #WhiteEvangelical Churches and Leave

On Friday, March 9, 2018, the New York Times published a story addressed what the...

March 06, 2018

Why Do We Have Such a Disdain For Poor People?

One of the last campaigns that Martin Luther King worked on was the Poor People's...

February 2018

February 26, 2018

White Supremacy in the Age of Trump

Below is a special issue on "White Supremacy in the Age of Trump" in the Journal...

February 22, 2018

Plantation Jesus: Race, Faith and a New Way Forward

Not long ago, most white American Christians believed that Jesus blessed slavery. God wasn't bothered...

February 19, 2018

Race, Shrinking Whiteness, and Four Qualities of the Moral Imagination

On Tuesday, February 13, 2018, Dr. Frank A. Thomas delivered a lecture titled, "Race, Shrinking...

February 18, 2018

#MLK, #BLM and the Rhetoric of Confrontation

On Friday, February 16, 2018, I gave a talk titled "If We Can't Get It,...

February 02, 2018

Silence and Sexual Assault: Toward a Better Response from the Church

by Tom Fuerst The church-at-large has been far too silent for far too long...

January 2018

January 31, 2018

“To Make the World So Damn Uncomfortable”: W.E.B. Du Bois and the African American Prophetic Tradition

In the December 1918 issue of The Crisis magazine, W.E.B. Du Bois celebrated the end...

January 08, 2018

Rhetoric and Religion in the 21st Century

[W]e are today witnessing the return of religion. As the French writer and statesman André...

January 01, 2018

Can We Forgive Roy Moore?

by Tom Fuerst Now that Doug Jones has officially won the senatorial race in Alabama,...

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