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November 2014

November 01, 2014

MTSO Appoints Valerie Bridgeman Associate Professor

Methodist Theological School in Ohio has appointed Valerie Bridgeman associate professor of homiletics and Hebrew...

October 2014

October 28, 2014

Call for Papers: Reparing Community: Faith-Based Responses to Racial Disparities and Conflict

African-descended communities across the globe are suffering effects of political, economic and social inequities whose...

October 28, 2014

Godless Millennials Could End the Political Power of the Religious Right

The 2014 midterm elections are drawing near, and it appears that the Democrats may well...

October 26, 2014

Theology at the Service of Humanity

Like the authors of Occupy Religion: Theology of the Multitude, I find in many of my...

October 26, 2014

R3 Contributor: Katherine Whitfield

Katherine Whitfield moved to Memphis, Tenn., in 2000 to attend Rhodes College. She graduated in...

October 26, 2014

Candy in the Wilderness: The Hagar Narrative as a Subtext in Tyler Perry’s “Madea Goes to Jail”

By Katherine WhitfieldR3 Contributor“Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave-girl, and gave her...

October 25, 2014

White Fragility and White Violence in America

In 1900, W. E. B. Du Bois declared that "the problem of the 20th century"...

October 25, 2014

Theologies of Word and State: Some Reflections on the Ottawa Shooting

The shooting in Ottawa on 22 October 2014 has uncovered the remarkable way that the...

October 24, 2014

Are the Gods Afraid of Black Sexuality?

We are living through a moment of tremendous change at the intersection of race, religion,...

October 22, 2014

Alex Haley’s 1965 Playboy Interview with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

In 1964, after he had won the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....

October 22, 2014

2014 Beecher Lectures: Otis Moss III

October 22, 2014

R3 Contributor: Nikia Smith Robert

Rev. Nikia Smith Robert enthusiastically embraces her divine purpose to preach, teach and engage in...

October 22, 2014

When and Where I Grieve

By Yolanda Pierce, Ph.D.,from KineticsLive.comThe tears started while I was sitting in a Barnes and...

October 22, 2014

Ferguson and the Church’s Responsibility: A Call to Black Power

In July 1966, an informal group of clergy met to discuss events that had happened...

October 22, 2014

Atheists in Foxholes: The Military Chaplaincy’s Humanist Problem

Do American military chaplains need to believe in God? Or, as the Navy Times once...

October 20, 2014

Ferguson: ‘The ‘Come to Jesus’ Moment for Us in the Church’

Danielle Dowd was back in front of the Ferguson police department Oct. 15, just two...

October 20, 2014

Sean Scott on Religious Rhetoric in the US Civil War

As we approach the sesquicentennial mark of the cessation of hostilities in the US Civil...

October 19, 2014

Beyond Belief: Postmodernity & Religion

As I have read more writing on postmodernism I have begun to question many of...

October 18, 2014

What or Who is Driving Americans Away from Religion?

In 2002, then-Berkeley (now-NYU) sociologist Michael Hout and I published apaper pointing out a new trend...

October 18, 2014

The Life of ‘Scholar Activist’ Rosemary Radford Ruether

Rosemary Radford Ruether embodies the theological vocation well lived. Her scope is awesome, her writing...

October 18, 2014

Theological Education Inside Out

In a previous blog I suggested that The idea that the human relationship to religion...

October 18, 2014

What is African American Religion?

Scholars have written a lot about the difficulties in the study of religion generally. Those...

October 17, 2014

The Making of Ferguson

In August 2014, a Ferguson, Missouri, policeman shot and killed an unarmed black teenager. Michael...

October 17, 2014

Has the Church Learned Anything From Ferguson?

It amazes me that the small town of Ferguson, essentially unknown to most of the...

October 17, 2014

Numbers of Southern Evangelicals are Dwindling

Midterm elections are all about turning out base constituencies. Over the last few decades, there...

October 16, 2014

Ebola and the Problem of (Our) Isolation

by R .Drew Smith, PhD. First Posted on KineticsLiveWe are isolating persons infected and affected...

October 16, 2014

A Moral Monday Letter to Ferguson

In Ferguson, MO, faith leaders led a Moral Monday civil disobedience action today. Rev. Dr....

October 16, 2014

The Only ‘Outside Agitators’ Left in Ferguson

Thousands of people from around the nation have traveled here under the banner #FergusonOctober to...

October 16, 2014

A Pastoral Letter to Members of the Ferguson, Missouri Police Force

Sisters and brothers on the Ferguson police force,Grace and peace to you. On Monday I...

October 16, 2014

#BiblicalJustice: Turning Tables and Snatching Wigs: A Biblical Response to Ferguson and Forney, Part 1

The events in Ferguson and Forney have made more visible to more people the divisions...

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