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March 2014

March 20, 2014

Setting the Record Straight on Jesus, ‘The Friend of Sinners’

Many people know that the New Testament refers to Jesus as a “friend of sinners,”...

March 20, 2014

Break Up? The Dealignment of the Christian Right from the Republican Machine

For the past twenty years the Christian right have been labeled the ‘backbone’ and ‘base’...

March 20, 2014

Should the Bible Trump America’s Laws?

As conservatives grapple with the reality of gay marriage and the Supreme Court weighs whether...

March 20, 2014

God’s Feminine Side Is Plain to See

Any halfway decent theologian will tell you that God is decidedly not an old man...

March 19, 2014

A Man with a Brown Hat

by Peter GathjeR3 Contributor*This first appeared in the Radical Hospitality BlogThe morning had started cold,...

March 19, 2014

The Destructive Myth About Religion

This week, Pew Research Center published the results of a survey conducted among 40,080 people in 40...

March 19, 2014

Cosmos and Christian History

As I watched the first episode of the new Cosmos series March 9, I wondered a number...

March 19, 2014

Biblical Epics Flourish in Hollywood

It's been called the greatest story ever told, so it's not surprising Hollywood has turned...

March 18, 2014

Urban Church P̶l̶a̶n̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ Plantations

If you are preparing to do [urban ministry] and you’ve never had a non-white mentor,...

March 18, 2014

Welcome to R3: Verdell Wright

Verdell Anthony Wright seeks to reach others with God’s liberating message in groundbreaking and innovative...

March 17, 2014

Meyer, White, and Women of the Prosperity Gospel

“It is time for the truth to be told and for people to realize the...

March 17, 2014

Accusations of Racism in a Brooklyn Lutheran Community

The Rev. Samuel Cruz went into a meeting at his Sunset Park church last month...

March 15, 2014

The Intellectual Snobbery of Conspicuous Atheism

Atheism is intellectually fashionable. In the past month, The New York Timeshas run several stories about lack of faith...

March 14, 2014

On Claiming Sophia

Christians miss insight into divine breadth without its female expression and distort perspective when male...

March 14, 2014

Gendered Imagery of God (Part 1)

I have been doing a lot of thinking about gendered imagery and language for God...

March 12, 2014

Call for Papers: Are the Gods Afraid of Black Sexuality?

Are the Gods Afraid of Black Sexuality? Religion and the Burdens of Black Sexual PoliticsColumbia...

March 12, 2014

Christians Have Fallen in Love With Queen Esther, Purim’s Jewish Heroine

In Hadassah: One Night With the King, a popular 2004 novelization of the Book of Esther,...

March 12, 2014

Exclusion or Saturation? Rethinking the Place of Religion in Public Life

To begin with, religions - Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and so on - are growing...

March 12, 2014

Neil DeGrasse Tyson Shows Science And Religion Can Co-Exist In ‘Cosmos’

Neil deGrasse Tyson has been called many things. Groundbreaking astronomer. Dynamic communicator. Sexiest astrophysicist alive.But what...

March 11, 2014

The Politics of Immigration: Genesis 12:1-4a

In his now classic work, God: A Biography, Ancient Near Eastern scholar Jack Miles offers a...

March 11, 2014

“Jesus Feminist:” A Gospel of Empowerment

“Jesus Feminist: Exploring God’s Radical Notion that Women are People, Too.”My initial reaction to that...

March 10, 2014

Light the Black Candle: Illuminating the Darkness of the #TrayvonMartin and #JordanDavis Murders Through Dialogue, Part 1

By Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-ColasR3 ContributorAs an educator, one of my greatest joys is working with full...

March 10, 2014

The Struggle and the Full Armor of God

by Peter GathjeR3 Contributor*First posted at the Radical Hospitality BlogI was going to write today about...

March 10, 2014

Darren Elzie Joins R3

Having started his preaching ministry in the 1970s in the Church of God in Christ,...

March 09, 2014

Our Women Contributors #WHM #WHM2014

In celebration of Women's History Month, we here at R3 celebrate our women contributors. Throughout...

March 09, 2014

The Real Origins of the Religious Right

Having failed in their efforts to stem the legalization of same-sex marriages, leaders of the...

March 08, 2014

Colleges Should Teach Religion to Their Students

I think religion should be taught in college. I’m not talking about “religious studies,” that...

March 07, 2014

Distractions & the Dark Feminine

I launched a conversation about depression a few months ago asking this question: What if it’s...

March 07, 2014

African American Churches and the Neglected Public Minister

In 2007, former Morehouse College President Robert Michael Franklin wrote that"one of the challenges ahead...

March 05, 2014

Spiritual and Religious

Without a doubt, it is a new day for spirituality in our world. In the...

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