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February 2013

February 08, 2013

New Round, Old Fight: Why The Religious Right Rejects The Obama Compromise Over Birth Control

I continue to be amazed that in the year 2013 our nation continues to grapple...

February 08, 2013

Remarks by the President at the National Prayer Breakfast

From www.whitehouse.govThank you very much. Please have a seat.Mark, thank you for that introduction. I...

February 06, 2013

CROSSCURRENTS 2013 Annual Research Colloquium

Spend the month of July in New York working on a research or writing project...

February 06, 2013

John Piper, Women in Combat, and How Gender Roles Fall Short of the Glory of Humankind

Co-Ed Combat and Cultural Cowardice, an article written by John Piper in 2007, has resurfaced...

February 06, 2013

The Quandary of African American Evangelicalism

John Fea’s recent Anxious Bench post, “Where Are the Studies of Twentieth-Century Black Evangelicalism?” raised...

February 05, 2013

God Made Another Super Patriotic Truck Ad For the SuperBowl!

Today, I found myself in the middle of some serious, if not heated discussions via...

February 05, 2013

“God Made a Farmer…” and that Farmer Made a Slave

The “8th Day” of which Paul Harvey speaks, must have occurred in the 1950s and...

February 05, 2013

We Need Less Religion in our Politics and Less Politics in our Religion

A few weeks before last November’s election, a yard sign popped up in front of...

February 04, 2013

What’s Real About the Rapture?

My maternal grandparents lived in a small northeast-Texas town with a communal zeitgeist more aboriginal...

February 04, 2013

Creflo Dollar’s Family Values

Televangelist Creflo Dollar is famous for his promises that God wants every aspect of life...

February 03, 2013

WHAT I MEAN WHEN I CALL CHRISTIANITY A “PRIVILEGED CLASS”…

by Crystal St. Marie LewisR3 Contributor*This post first appeared in the Crystal St. Marie Lewis...

February 02, 2013

The Inspiration & Idolatry of Dr. King & President Obama”

From, The Pastor and Professor: Season 2, Episode 2

February 01, 2013

When the “Good Book” is Bad: Challenging the Bible’s Violent Portrayals of God

The basic premise of my recent book, The Violence of Scripture, is quite simple: the Bible should...

February 01, 2013

Dr. Wil Gafney to Lecture at Memphis Theological Seminary

*Update: We will live tweet the lectures using as our hashtag #MTSTodd. Follow Memphis Theological Seminary...

January 2013

January 29, 2013

Visions of Sisterhood

by KimberlyPeeler-RingerR3 ContributorHave you ever been watching a newscast, learned some awful crime has happened...

January 29, 2013

Bible-Minded Cities

From its place in schools, to the public square, to people’s individual lives, the current...

January 29, 2013

‘New Evangelical’-Progressive Alliance? Not So Fast

What do evangelicals want? Marcia Pally attempts to answer that question for at least some...

January 29, 2013

Black Theology and Leadership Institute

The Black Theology and Leadership Institute is a week long intensive continuing education event for the training,...

January 28, 2013

Race, Politics, and American Christianity

Back in 2003, when the US went to war with Iraq, I was working in...

January 28, 2013

Initial Evidence of Religious Practice and Belief in Depressed African American Cancer Patients

Abstract:Objective:This study examined spiritual coping (beliefs and practices) of depressed African American cancer patients through...

January 28, 2013

BLACK RELIGION SCHOLARSHIP’S PUBLIC REACH

In a richly insightful reflection on the public contributions and prospects of black religion scholarship,...

January 26, 2013

In Obama’s Inauguration Speech, a New American Religion

In the days following President Obama’s inauguration address,commentators across the political spectrum have made much about...

January 26, 2013

From the Dream to the Mountain Top and Beyond: Martin Luther King and the African American Prophetic Tradition

by Andre E. JohnsonR3 Editor*This is part of the keynote speech I gave at Viterbo...

January 24, 2013

New Survey Finds Increased Support for Better Mental Health Services to Prevent Future Mass Shootings, Stricter Gun Control Laws

Americans are more likely to believe that improving mental health screening and support is the...

January 24, 2013

When Patriarchy Trumps Theology

by Carol Howard MerrittR3 ContributorI picked up the Tribune, and my mouth fell open at the...

January 23, 2013

Faith in Values: The President and the Poet

At Monday’s Inauguration ceremony a poet echoed a president, transforming themes of connection and equality into vivid images...

January 22, 2013

The Second Inauguration of Barack Obama

January 22, 2013

Presidential Inaugurations: Celebration of Civil Religion

Civil religion is the folk religion of a nation; in the United States, invocation of...

January 22, 2013

LET’S NOT “AGREE TO DISAGREE”

by Crystal St. Marie LewisR3 ContributorI’m taking an interfaith conflict resolution course at my seminary....

January 21, 2013

Martin Luther King Jr. on Human Solidarity, An Inescapable Network of Mutuality, and the Dangers of Un-interrogated “Whiteness”

by Cynthia NielsenR3 ContributorIn Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s essay, “Nonviolence and Racial Justice,” he...

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