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August 2013

August 08, 2013

Robert Bellah, Sociologist of Religion Who Mapped the American Soul, Dies at 86

Robert N. Bellah, a distinguished sociologist of religion who sought nothing less than to map...

August 08, 2013

Dispelling the Myth of a ‘Christian nation’

Culture warriors, pseudo historians and opportunistic politicians have spent the last several decades peddling the...

August 07, 2013

Urban #GodTalk: Constructing a #HipHop #Spirituality

We are pleased to announce the publication of Urban God Talk: Constructing a Hip Hop...

August 06, 2013

Maybe Millennials Are Just Realizing That ‘God is Dead’

The last time I taught Introduction to the Study of Religion, I began the class...

August 05, 2013

7 Stages of White Identity

I have had the joy of pastoring a multiethnic, economically diverse church in Chicago for...

August 05, 2013

Center for Faith and Vocation Presents “Freedom of Expression and Religion”

Butler University’s Seminar on Religion and World Civilization presents “Freedom of Expression and Religion,” a...

August 05, 2013

Religion Challenges Left and Right

Whenever I write sympathetically about religion, I get bombarded by tweets and notes from readers...

August 05, 2013

Everything I Know about Racism I Learned in the Church

WHEN I LEARNED THAT I WAS A NIGGEREvery summer, my mom would sign us up...

August 05, 2013

#Obama: Black Paternalism and the Passive Revolution, Part 2

by Joseph BostonR3 Contributor*Parts of this first appeared in the Joseph Boston blog**Read Part 1 here Ta-Nehisi Coates...

August 04, 2013

Being Black, Lesbian, and Muslim In The South

Black. Muslim. Lesbian. I get the same look now that I did eight years ago...

August 04, 2013

Safe, Not Sterile: Discussing Sex at Church

Recently I was at a clergy conference where I got to have conversations I’ve been...

August 04, 2013

Mo Sabri – I Believe In Jesus

Read more from Young Muslim Musicians Marry Faith, Hip-Hop, Rock ‘n’ Roll here

August 04, 2013

Dr. Randall Bailey to Lecture at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee

R3 contributor Earle Fisher, Senior Pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, presents an...

August 03, 2013

A Little Simple, Perhaps, but Useful! On the Reza Aslan Affair

First, an admission. While I have watched Fox News anchor Lauren Green’s interview with Reza Aslan,...

August 03, 2013

The Remedy to Religious Guilt

Conversion means change. But when we're converted, we don't immediately appreciate the thoroughgoing nature of...

August 03, 2013

As a Fundamentalist Christian, This I Was Taught to Believe

What follows is a collection of some of the stuff I was taught to believe....

August 03, 2013

Sleep as Spiritual Necessity

Sleep. Sleep. Sleeep.Sleep is the best meditation – Dalai LamaThe best bridge between despair and hope...

August 02, 2013

Longing For (and Still Resisting) Silence

I woke up at 3am this morning f***ing terrified. God knows why, but as I...

August 01, 2013

Taking #Sabbath and Being Holy

by Andre E. JohnsonR3 EditorEvery August for the last 10 years, our church has taken...

August 01, 2013

Individual vs. Societal Responsibility for Helping the Poor

*This first appeared in the Public Religion Research Institute blog.

July 2013

July 31, 2013

Engaging Religion at the Department of State

This past week, the US Department of State announced the creation of a new office that “will focus...

July 31, 2013

On #Christian #Fundamentalism’s Ongoing Effort to Win Custody of #Jesus

by Crystal St. Marie LewisR3 Contributor*This first appeared in the Crystal St. Marie Lewis blogI’ve been...

July 31, 2013

U.S. Religious Landscape Survey: Religious Affiliation

An extensive new survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life details the...

July 30, 2013

Grace-St. Luke Episcopal Church Presents “This Round’s on Me” #Theology Series

July 30, 2013

#Obama: Black Paternalism and the Passive Revolution, Part 1

by Joseph BostonR3 Contributor*Parts of this first appeared in the Joseph Boston blogThe greatest principle...

July 29, 2013

#Religion and Income Inequality: The Paradox of the South

The New York Times recently reported on a new study by economists from Harvard and UC Berkeley on...

July 29, 2013

Why Millennials Are Leaving the Church

At 32, I barely qualify as a millennial.I wrote my first essay with a pen...

July 28, 2013

#Zimmerman and #Trayvon: Is There a Christian Way Forward?

by Tony PetersonR3 Contributor* This first appeared in TDad's Purr and Roar“What do you think...

July 28, 2013

“You Are the Man!”

by Noel HutchinsonR3 ContributorOn July 19th, President Barack Obama shared with the nation a historical...

July 27, 2013

Is there a American Radical Tradition? Is it a Faith-Tradition?

Is there an American Radical Tradition in the United States? That is, was there a...

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