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October 2012

October 29, 2012

Hip-Hop, Religion & The Black Church

Watch as R3 Blogger Ebony A. Utley chops it up with Left of Black host Mark...

October 29, 2012

Meet R3 Contributor: Crystal St. Marie Lewis

When Crystal St. Marie Lewis isn't writing for R3, she's engaging Christianity's tough questions on...

October 29, 2012

R3 Contributor: Brian Foulks

Brian Foulks is a church planter/ lead pastor, an urban missionary, and a social activist....

October 28, 2012

The Price of a Black President

WHEN African-Americans go to the polls next week, they are likely to support Barack Obama...

October 28, 2012

The Romney effect: Campaign sheds light on Mormonism

When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney traveled through Mississippi earlier this year, he used grits,...

October 27, 2012

Fixing the Relationship between Faith and Politics

What’s wrong–and what’s right–with the role of faith in American politics today? This is a...

October 27, 2012

Welcoming Political Diversity Within Religious Community

I couldn’t watch more than about fifteen minutes of the second Presidential debate. Unpleasant emotions...

October 26, 2012

Religion, Race And Double Standards

Imagine for a moment that Barack Obama had never attended Jeremiah Wright's church in Chicago...

October 26, 2012

#R3debate Tweets

Here are the tweets from the Presidential Debate held October 22, 2012. Enjoy [View the...

October 25, 2012

Post-Racial America? The Tangle of Race, Religion, and Citizenship

The election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States brought questions about...

October 25, 2012

A History of the Unaffiliated: How the “Spiritual Not Religious” Gospel Has Spread

You can call them "unaffiliated," as in a recent Pew poll, or "nones"—or even just...

October 22, 2012

The Forgotten Prophet: Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and the African American Prophetic Tradition

The Forgotten Prophet: Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and the African American Prophetic Tradition, by Andre...

October 21, 2012

A Christian Consensus on Poverty?

Two weeks ago I criticized the two presidential candidates for their nearly exclusive focus on...

October 21, 2012

The Black Church, the Blues, and Black Bodies

“Ooh, Ohh there’s something going all wrong”, Ma Rainey sang. There is indeed something going...

October 21, 2012

To some, Obama is the ‘wrong’ kind of Christian

President Barack Obama was sharing a pulpit one day with a conservative Christian leader when...

October 20, 2012

African-American Clergy for Marriage Equality in MD

October 20, 2012

Politics Needs a Divorce from Religion

If President Obama’s recent political support of same-sex marriage has done nothing else, it’s ignited...

October 20, 2012

The Riddle of Romney’s Religion

“We’re electing him to be our Commander-in-Chief, not Pastor-in-Chief.” That’s how one Christian woman recently...

October 19, 2012

THE EVANGELIST AND HIS WICKED ADVISERS

Once upon a time there was a good king named Théoden of Rohan. King Théoden...

October 19, 2012

Latinos, Religion and Campaign 2012

Latinos are divided by religion in their preferences in the upcoming presidential election, according to...

October 19, 2012

R3 Blog Celebrates 1,000th post

If you are reading this post, we are glad to announce that this is our...

October 17, 2012

Pastors Support Romney Despite Mormon Faith

Three times more Protestant pastors plan to vote for Mitt Romney over Barack Obama in...

October 17, 2012

To Be Straight, Thin, and “Healthy”

Last month, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a law that banned so-called “reparative therapy” for gay children....

October 16, 2012

Why We Need More Religion in Politics, Not Less

Last week I received another expression of a very common sentiment in the comments box...

October 16, 2012

Role of religion in national politics focus of 2012 Cole Lectures

Anthea Butler, a noted scholar on religion and politics who is a regular contributor to...

October 15, 2012

The Rhetorical Education of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner

In my last post, I offered a brief biographical sketch of Turner. In this post,...

October 14, 2012

The GOP’s Secularism Problem

There’s been much angst on the right over the Republican Party’s growing demographic problems, most...

October 14, 2012

In twist, evangelicals now backing Mitt Romney

D.J. Moberley, a 30-year-old evangelical Christian, seems an unlikely cog in the effort to elect...

October 14, 2012

Mitt’s Jesus, Barack’s Jesus, and Why Christ’s Color Matters

The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in Americaby...

October 13, 2012

Thoughts on America no longer having a Protestant (ideological) majority

Recently, I read about a new poll whose headline caught my eye immediately: Protestants no...

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