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March 2013

March 21, 2013

What If the Kids Don’t Want Our Church?

I had a conversation with a man not long ago who has the unenviable task...

March 21, 2013

The Loss Of African Traditional Religion In Contemporary Africa

The desecration of Africa in the past by the Western European powers seriously and adversely...

March 21, 2013

Religious Sexual Repression and the Responsibilities of the New Pope

Whoever the new Pope will be, he will have the chance to address the 900...

March 20, 2013

Pope Francis’s Address to Religious Leaders

First of all, heartfelt thanks for what my Brother Andrew told us. Thank you so...

March 18, 2013

The ‘Religious Liberty’ Bullies and Their Fight Against LGBT Equality

Thirty-five years ago, having lost the moral battle for segregation, a small group of evangelicals...

March 18, 2013

Are Conservative Churches Really Winning by Being More Orthodox?

This weekend, NPR’s Scott Simon invited Mary Eberstadt, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy...

March 18, 2013

Inaugural Meeting: Society of Race, Ethnicity and Religion

March 18, 2013

Don’t Blame It on the Bible

Most Americans who oppose gay rights and same-sex marriage justify their opposition by turning to...

March 18, 2013

Jesus’ Bible and the History Channel’s Bible

The third episode of the History Channel's ratings-shattering series, The Bible, moves from the Israelite...

March 18, 2013

You Wouldn’t Believe How Fast Americans Are Losing Their Religion — But the Fundamentalists Have a Plan

Sometime last year, the US quietly passed a milestone demographers had long been predicting: for the...

March 17, 2013

Pimps, Prophets and the Prophetic Tradition: Towards a Prophetic and More Inclusive Theology

By Earle FisherR3 Contributor*This is an excerpt of a paper originally presented at the National...

March 16, 2013

Religion Among Americans Hits Low Point, As More People Say They Have No Religious Affiliation

The number of Americans who claim to have no religious affiliation is the highest it has ever...

March 11, 2013

A Theological Reflection on Shiva on the Occasion of Mahashivaratri

On March 10, Hindus around the world will celebrate Shivaratri (The Night of Shiva). I...

March 11, 2013

Black Samson & White Women on the History Channel

The History Channel's miniseries on the Bible is a ratings blockbuster. The Bible is an...

March 09, 2013

Exhibiting Faith: Religion & Public History, Part 1

Historical Boston is held together by a thin red line. Running along the city’s cobblestone...

March 09, 2013

Thoughts of a Religious Feminist

When I turned 18, and was fresh out of Bnei Akiva and the Israeli state...

March 09, 2013

Religion has a Woman Problem

We often ask whether religion is good for women but I think it’s just as...

March 09, 2013

Kumbh Mela: A Week at the Largest Religious Gathering in the World

Every 12 years, millions of pilgrims gather for the Kumbh Mela at the confluence of...

March 05, 2013

History Channel’s Bible Is a Hit. Does That Mean TV Will Get Religion?

Up until now, the year’s big cable-ratings story has been the ever-growing success of zombie...

March 05, 2013

Spiritual But Not Giving a Damn

I’m a Christian and as such I consider myself as being both spiritual and religious but these...

March 05, 2013

History Channel’s “The Bible” Keeps Conservatives (Mostly) Happy and Jesus White

Where have I seen this before? Moses realizing his calling, leading his people, parting the...

March 04, 2013

Book Review: American Heathens: Religion, Race, and Reconstruction in California

In his wonderful, and still relatively new, book American Heathens: Religion, Race, and Reconstruction in...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

Stress, Health and African American Women: A Black History Month Notation

February is African-American History Month, an annual observance for remembrance of important people and events...

February 27, 2013

To Be Young, Godless, and Black

*Apologies to Nina Simone and Aretha Franklin. Hope my African-American readers out there don’t go...

February 27, 2013

Prosperity Gospel and Foreclosure

A headline caught my eye this morning: "Indiana's Largest Megachurch Faces New Foreclosure Proceedings." It...

February 26, 2013

Will (white) Evangelicals Veer Left? Who Cares?

By Arlene Sanchez-WalshR3 ContributorPost was first published at Re-Generacion There has been continued interest in the...

February 26, 2013

Welcome Arlene Sanchez-Walsh To R3

Arlene M. Sánchez-Walsh is associate professor of Church History & Latino/a Church Studies at Azusa...

February 25, 2013

A Call to Reduce Gun Violence

LENTEN PETITION CALLING FOR COMMON-SENSE MEASURES TO REDUCE GUN VIOLENCEBlessed are the peacemakers, for they...

February 25, 2013

The Politics of Religion

This past weekend was the 12th annual Florida State University Graduate Student Symposium (#fsugss on Twitter). Dr. Aaron Hughes from the...

February 23, 2013

Ella Baker and the Limits of Charismatic Masculinity

In perhaps one of the most important biographies of a civil rights leader published, Professor...

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