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January 30, 2014

Can Cathy McMorris Rodgers Resurrect Compassionate Conservatism?

While President Obama gave a nod to religious leaders on the economy, immigration and gun...

January 29, 2014

Zerlina Maxwell Offers Talk at Rhodes College

January 29, 2014

Millennials Invent New Religion: No Hell, No Priests, No Punishment

"Isn't it blasphemy to invent a religion?" my student asked with concern. Every semester, in...

January 28, 2014

State of the Union Tweet Chat #R3SOTU

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January 28, 2014

Privilege and The Pill

In my relentless pursuit of scaring off as many readers as possible this year, I’m...

January 28, 2014

Beyoncé And Jay Z Show How Sexy Christian Marriage Can Be

It was sexy. It felt a little voyeuristic, like we should all look away. But...

January 28, 2014

Why Calling Something “Biblical” Might Not be the Best Idea

If you’ve been involved with traditional Christian culture long enough, at some point you’ve heard...

January 27, 2014

#R3sotu: R3 to Live Tweet During the #SOTU Address

Join Rhetoric Race and Religion as we live tweet during the State of the Union...

January 27, 2014

The Prophetic Persona of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner

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

January 27, 2014

Assault in Academia: My Meeting at RCA, Part 5

by Andre E. JohnsonR3 EditorRead the series hereWhen I returned home, I finally returned the...

January 25, 2014

How Race and Religion have Polarized American Voters

The rise of polarized politics in Washington is a direct result of profound changes that...

January 25, 2014

The Religious Counterculture: An Open Letter to Religious Liberals

A high school teacher of mine used to entertain his classes by rattling off lists...

January 22, 2014

Refocusing and Redefining Hip Hop: An Analysis of Lecrae’s Contribution to Hip Hop

Out of the dust and ashes from apartment buildings burning in the streets of the...

January 22, 2014

The Church of Kanye West: ‘Yeezianity’ and Humanism

Its website declares Yeezianity “THE BEST CHURCH OF ALL TIME!!!!!” Like any good religion, it has several...

January 21, 2014

More Religiously Conservative Protestants? More Divorce

Divorce is higher among religiously conservative Protestants – and even drives up divorce rates for...

January 21, 2014

Martin Luther King, Jr.: How Christian Churches Can Continue His Legacy

In 1983–the year after I was born–President Ronald Reagan officially designated the third Monday in...

January 21, 2014

The Uncompromising Anti-Capitalism of Martin Luther King Jr.

In the thousands of speeches and celebrations on the official Martin Luther King holiday since...

January 21, 2014

Non-theism and the “Nones”: Part 1

Scholarly Production of the Religiously Unaffiliated Sitting in the audience at the “Discussing...

January 21, 2014

Jeremiah Wright: King Had a Dream, Obama Has a Drone

I hated the way Reverend Jeremiah Wright was treated during the 2008 presidential campaign.Republicans used...

January 20, 2014

Started From the Bottom Now You Where?: An MLK Day Reflection, of Sorts

Cheryl Clarke once prudently instructed, “So, all of us would do well to stop fighting...

January 20, 2014

Blacks and Jews in America: Fifty Years Later

1964 was a significant year in the relationship between Blacks and Jews in America. Black...

January 17, 2014

Special #MLK Message From #BishopWalker on #TheSHIFT

Bishop Joseph Walker's response to the open letter initiated by Dr. Valerie Bridgeman in response...

January 17, 2014

Using Our Sanitized Imagination: Why We Don’t Really Like MLK

by C J RhodesR3 Contributor*This first appeared on the C J Rhodes blogOn January 15...

January 17, 2014

Keeping Tabs on Obama’s Church Attendance Is No Way to Gauge His Faith

An article in the New York Times last week tallied up the number of times President Obama has attended...

January 16, 2014

Flipping the Script: Mimetic Theory and the Nonviolent God

When I was in seminary, one of my best friends came up with a brilliant...

January 16, 2014

Rethinking Biblical Literalism for Our Own Well-being

I recently came across a few statistics about black women and religion that weren’t surprising,...

January 15, 2014

Your Own Personal Religion

The first piece of writing I ever published was called "Christianity and Humanism." All my...

January 15, 2014

Are Liberals Too “Special” to Go to Church?

New research from psychologists from the New York University suggests that the desire to feel...

January 15, 2014

‘Spiritual but Not Religious’: A Rising, Misunderstood Voting Bloc

Spirituality is a big story in politics. Maybe as big a story as religion. It’s...

January 14, 2014

Martin Luther King and the African American Prophetic Tradition

R3 editor Dr. Andre E. Johnson will give a lecture on Martin Luther King Jr....

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