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June 2013

June 17, 2013

Divine Dialogue Returns

Divine Dialogue returns for its third summer season June 16! Designed to inform and engage...

June 16, 2013

Caring For The Least of These: Does Religion Provide a Way Forward for Southern Progressivism?

Sarah and I were in St. Louis recently for a Spring Break vacation. While we...

June 15, 2013

Rhetoric Race and Haitian Thought

by Celucien JospehR3 ContributorI would like to inform you about my new book, From Toussaint to...

June 15, 2013

Becoming the Common: Why I Got Arrested in North Carolina This Week

I was arrested this week. This was the first time in my life that I...

June 13, 2013

Tony Jones, Peter Rollins, and the Trend of “Don’t Call Me Racist!”

Emergent Christianity is a broad term, and progressive an even broader one, so I don’t...

June 13, 2013

Religious Liberty for the Rest of Us

The Puritans sailed to these shores 400 years ago seeking freedom of religion, but freedom...

June 12, 2013

North Carolina Moral Monday Protests Split On Bible’s Message To Help Poor

Over the last two months, hundreds of protesters have walked out of North Carolina's capitol...

June 12, 2013

Faith in Values: God Versus Godless—a False Choice

Depending on which pundits you follow, America is either a nation that’s drenched in religion...

June 12, 2013

Beyond Slaveholding Christianity, Part 3: Getting Rid of Our Spiritual Amnesia

One memory that stands out from my time serving underneath Curtis May, who runs the...

June 12, 2013

Beyond Slaveholder Christianity, part 2: The Roots of Slaveholder Christianity

Slaveholder Christianity is the approach to the Scriptures which my ancestors used to justify the...

June 12, 2013

Beyond Slaveholder Christianity, Part 1: Moving Beyond the Southern Comfort Zone

Recently I was blessed to join in a ceremony on behalf of theProgressive Christian Alliance church...

June 12, 2013

A Biblical Task: Translating the Bible in the 21st Century

When scholar and priest William Tyndale decided to translate the Bible into English in the 1520s, he...

June 12, 2013

New Study Suggests Religion May Help Criminals Justify Their Crimes

In 1996, noted criminologist Jewel asked a question that has long haunted those hoodlums prone to pondering...

June 11, 2013

Religious Fundamentalism in the ‘War on Terror’

Before his death in a 2012 shooting incident, Chris Kyle was famous in the United...

June 11, 2013

Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement, Part 2: Reflections on the Documentary “Eyes on the Prize.”

by Andre E. JohnsonR3 EditorRead Part 1 hereThis summer for two weeks at Memphis Theological Seminary,...

June 10, 2013

Southern Baptists Meet In Houston

A decade ago, the Southern Baptist Convention was riding high.The president of the United States...

June 10, 2013

“On the Battlefield for My Lord”: Chaplain Henry McNeal Turner, Part 3

by Andre E. JohnsonChaplain Henry McNeal TurnerR3 Editor*This is the third of a four part...

June 09, 2013

In Gay Marriage Debate, Both Supporters and Opponents See Legal Recognition as ‘Inevitable’

Religious belief continues to be an important factor in opposition to societal acceptance of homosexuality...

June 09, 2013

Americans Want Religion—for Everyone But Themselves

When commended for being a “pillar of the Church,” Winston Churchill supposedly once replied that...

June 08, 2013

Do Religious Restrictions Force Doctors to Commit Malpractice?

Picture this: You wake up far too early one morning because your hand is intensely...

June 08, 2013

Religious Leaders To Develop An Action Plan to Decriminalize Drugs

This June 13-14, two dozen religious leaders will gather at the historic American Baptist College...

June 06, 2013

The Missionary Movement to ‘Save’ Black Babies

Last December, Care Net—the nation’s largest network of evangelical Christian crisis pregnancy centers—featured a birth...

June 06, 2013

The Gospel of (and for) E.W. Jackson

Worth reading from National Review (I know, I know) is this profile of E.W. Jackson, a conservative African American...

June 06, 2013

Why the Church Can Support “Breadwinning” Wives Too

Last week, a Pew study revealed that in four out of ten American households with children, the...

June 05, 2013

Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement, Part 1: Reflections on the film “The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow.”

by Andre E. JohnsonR3 EditorThis summer for two weeks at Memphis Theological Seminary, I get...

June 05, 2013

The Boston Bombing: A Reader

On April 15, 2013 around 3:00pm EST, two explosions rocked participants and onlookers at the Boston...

June 04, 2013

Polls on ‘Religious Influence’ Say More About The Media Than Religion

For over half a century, Gallup has been asking Americans whether they think the influence...

June 03, 2013

“On the Battlefield for My Lord”: Chaplain Henry McNeal Turner, Part 2

by Andre E. JohnsonR3 Editor* This is the second of a four part series. Read the...

June 02, 2013

Is Islam a Religion of Peace?

"Is Islam a religion of peace?" Why is such a nonsensical question still being asked?One...

June 02, 2013

God is Not a Guy, and Neither Am I!

More and more I find myself responding, “I am not a guy,” to waiters in...

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