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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...

August 19, 2014

Don’t Ignore It: 5 Ways Christians and Churches Must Engage Michael Brown’s Death

I have so much emotions and thoughts in my mind, heart, and body – in...

August 19, 2014

Are Christians in America Facing a ‘Babylonian Exile’?

From the moment they set foot on North American soil, the Puritans who came to...

August 19, 2014

Stark Racial Divisions in Reactions to Ferguson Police Shooting

Blacks and whites have sharply different reactions to the police shooting of an unarmed teen...

August 18, 2014

Strange Fruit that Hangs from American Seminaries: A Letter from a Black Seminarian

Strange fruit currently hangs over many seminaries in the United States of America. Though unity...

August 17, 2014

Despite a Turbulent Work Life, a Minister Doesn’t Question Her Calling

The Rev. Dominique C. Atchison stood at the lectern in the church fellowship hall, her...

August 17, 2014

Lerone Martin Begins New Appointment With Danforth Center

Lerone A. Martin has joined the faculty of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion...

August 14, 2014

Jesus Christ in Ferguson

by Edward BlumR3 ContributorIt seemed like every few months an African American man had been...

August 14, 2014

Praying for the Brave Ones With Fear and Trembling

by Raedorah C. StewartSpecial to R3Sometimes I fear I may have been too justice minded,...

August 14, 2014

Obama, War and the Black Church: Revisiting the Politics of Jesus

by Jamye WootenSpecial to R3“We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we...

August 13, 2014

Resolution from the Religious Narrative and Racial Control Working Group at the National Summit on Race

by Andre E. JohnsonR3 EditorFollow Andre on Twitter @aejohnsonphdRecently my wife Lisa and I attended...

August 12, 2014

Don’t Mess With My Messiah: #BlackJesus, Blind Faith & Biblical Foolishness

by Earle FisherR3 ContributorFollow Earle on Twitter @pastor_earleThis post first appeared at Rainbows and LilacsI watched it....

August 12, 2014

#MichaelBrown: The Devaluation of Black Bodies Continued

by Kimberly Peeler-RingerR3 ContributorFollow Kimberly on Twitter @kpringerAbout a year ago I wrote an essay entitled “The...

August 09, 2014

Black Jesus: We have Other Things to Boycott

I had been hearing rumblings for a couple weeks, but Thursday morning I awoke to...

August 09, 2014

Renisha McBride Matters: Burying the Pain of the Zimmerman Effect

By Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas Ph.DFollow Elizabeth on Twitter @MoveProfPhDLike many in the nation, I waited...

August 09, 2014

Progressve American Muslims Find Faith While Challenging Taboos On Sexuality and Gender

Omar Akersim prays regularly and observes the dawn-to-dusk Ramadan fast. He is also openly gay.Akersim,...

August 09, 2014

Jesus Walks (and Smokes Weed): Black Jesus and its Theological Implications

By Andre E. Key, PhDFollow on Twitter @AKeyPhD What happens when you combine James Cone’s...

August 07, 2014

The Church Sex Abuse We Don’t Talk About

This week I read an article from Samantha Pugsley in which she bravely recounted her...

August 07, 2014

The “Black Manifesto” in Twentieth-Century American Religious History

The last several months have seen many thoughtful responses to Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “A Case for...

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