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September 2014

September 03, 2014

Minister Farrakhan Responds to #MikeBrown Shooting in #Ferguson: A Time to Die

September 02, 2014

The Right-Wing, the Bible and the November Elections

We are living in insane times. Like purveyors of a bad Orwellian joke, right-wing politicians...

September 02, 2014

Has Ferguson Changed the Hearts of Megachurch Pastors?

Dr. Jasmin Sculark takes a holistic approach to ministry, knowing that as the recently appointed...

September 02, 2014

Between Godliness and Godlessness

ALMOST midway through Sam Harris’s new book, “Waking Up,” he paints a scene that will...

September 02, 2014

#Ferguson on the First Day?

I am organized.I have to-do lists, stop-doing lists, someday lists, and checklists galore. When it’s...

September 02, 2014

Power is in the Pews—A Student Remembers Rev. Shirley Prince

By Alice Faye DuncanSpecial to R3I am a Memphian who grew up in the African...

September 01, 2014

Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and the Politics of Reconstruction-Part 5

by Andre E. JohnsonR3 Editor*Read part 1 here. Read Part 2 here. Read Part 3 here. Read Part...

August 2014

August 29, 2014

Mike Brown’s Blood

When Rev. Traci Blackmon picked me up from St. Louis International Airport last week, she...

August 29, 2014

We Forget Dr. King Had a Political Ministry

Ancestors, smancestors. Obviously, it doesn’t matter to some that previous generations faced death for the...

August 29, 2014

Cheap Peace

People are already calling for rest in Ferguson. People are demanding calm and peace. Yet,...

August 27, 2014

#RenishaMcBride: The #TheodoreWafer Trial: A Reader

On November 2, 2013, Theodore Wafer shot and killed Renisha McBride as she sought assistance...

August 27, 2014

Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing: Prophetic Practices over Pious Polity

by Earle FisherR3 ContributorI’ve spent the last several months trying to drive home to point...

August 27, 2014

Doing Theology As Though Our Bodies Mattered

The shooting of Michael Brown, the subsequent protests, and the police response in Ferguson, Missouri...

August 26, 2014

Al Sharpton Does Not Have My Ear: Why We Need New Black Leadership Now

Racial politics in the U.S. is beholden to the space of black death. On Monday,...

August 26, 2014

Liberal Clergy Want to Challenge the Religious Right’s Power in Politics

It was too much to resist: the media lure of prominent clergy members like the...

August 26, 2014

A Call for More than Judicial Remedies

By the Reverend Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, IIDirector, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Office of Public WitnessThe...

August 25, 2014

Rev. Al Sharpton Delivers Michael Brown Eulogy

August 25, 2014

Jesus in Strange Places: ‘Black Jesus’ & Understanding Religion & Race on the Margins

Every once and a while Jesus shows up in strange places. The first time I...

August 25, 2014

Religion and Truth

The best way into our subject is through a look at ancient mythology. Consider, for...

August 24, 2014

White Christians: It’s Time to Stand in Solidarity With Your Black Brothers and Sisters

In 1894, black racial justice activist Ida B. Wells sounded the alarm on racial injustice,...

August 24, 2014

No More Reconciliation Talk

This post is mostly for other white Christians.It’s not about what we should all be doing today in...

August 24, 2014

Ferguson as Christological Challenge: Rethinking Jesus in an Unjust Society

Racism and state-sponsored violence nullify another sun-kissed life in America. Innards, as the Black Youth Project...

August 21, 2014

For Ferguson, We Need Less Niebuhr and More Baldwin

by Edward BlumR3 Contributor Follow Edward J. Blum on Twitter: @edwardjblum Fifty-one years ago, dynamite rocked Sixteenth...

August 21, 2014

Police in Ferguson, Mo Keep on Praying and Preying

The Greater St. Mark Church was raided today as St. Louis County Police thought that protesters were...

August 21, 2014

From Ferguson, Missouri to Manna House

by Peter GathjeR3 ContributorFollow Peter on Twitter @petegathMost of our guests at Manna House stay...

August 21, 2014

James Cone, The Persistent Widow, and Theological Responses to Riots

I was profoundly disturbed when I saw the chilling images initially coming out of Ferguson,...

August 21, 2014

A Report from the 2014 NEH Summer Institute “Problems in the Study of Religion”

This summer I had the pleasure of working with Professors Kurtis Schaeffer and Charles Mathewes...

August 21, 2014

The Murder of James Foley, ISIS, and Religions of Peace

While discussing the news of the murder of journalist James Foley at the hands of...

August 20, 2014

#FergusonSyllabus: The #FergusonFiasco and Teaching African American Theology

by Andre E. JohnsonR3 EditorFollow Andre on Twitter @aejohnsonphdI had already completed the syllabus. The...

August 20, 2014

An Invitation to Disruption: A Call to White Churches

It was July 19, 2013, and we were leaving New York City for a spiritual...

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