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January 06, 2015

“Jesus-loving, Free Black Man”: What I Learned from Dr. Cornel West

by C J Rhodes R3 Contributor Last night my channel surfing proved to be...

January 06, 2015

Questioning Genocide and Slavery in the Bible

There are a number of things in the Bible that should trouble any reader. We...

January 06, 2015

Understanding The Span Of The Progressive Christian Label

Last week I wrote two back-to-back posts dealing with Christian labels, and how there are...

January 05, 2015

Announcing PT 16.1: Theology, Plurality, and Society

Issue 16.1 of the journal Political Theology is devoted to theology, plurality and society. Below...

January 05, 2015

Faith on the Hill

When the new, 114th Congress is sworn in on Jan. 6, 2015, Republicans will control...

December 2014

December 25, 2014

Happy Holidays

As we take some much needed time off, we here at Rhetoric Race and Religion...

December 24, 2014

The Bible: So Misunderstood It’s a Sin

They wave their Bibles at passersby, screaming their condemnations of homosexuals. They fall on their...

December 23, 2014

I’m Single, Saved, Celibate… and Still Thinking About Sex

I am a single, saved, 40-something woman who is waiting until marriage to have sex....

December 22, 2014

Thomas Merton and the Synergy of Christianity and Buddhism

I had a very interesting conversation with a good friend recently. My friend is a...

December 20, 2014

#JamesConeWasRight: An #AnaBlacktivist Chat

[View the story "#JamesConeWasRight: An #AnaBlacktivist Chat" on Storify]

December 18, 2014

Secular, Spiritual, Religious: American Religion Beyond the Baby Boomers

In his wide-ranging interview with Dusty Hoesly, Wade Clark Roof both re-emphasizes the importance of...

December 18, 2014

Does the Gospel Mandate Racial Reconciliation?

African American pastors are less likely than white pastors to believe that the gospel mandates...

December 18, 2014

Mere Republicanity? How Millenials are Changing the “Christian Right” (Pt. 2)

[This is the second half of an article adapted from a paper delivered at the...

December 17, 2014

How Religion Was Misused In CIA Interrogations

The release of the CIA torture report uncovered and detailed the many brutal tactics employed...

December 16, 2014

Church Sex Scandals Are Rooted in Theology

At this point, there are so many sex scandals among conservative religious organizations, we’re no...

December 15, 2014

Being and Blackness: The Significance of Black Lived Experience in Ferguson

by Katherine Whitfield R3 Contributor “For manifestly, you have long been aware of what you...

December 15, 2014

A Statement about the #FergusonFiasco

Students in the Fall 2014 African American Religious Thought class at Memphis Theological Seminary created...

December 15, 2014

God Who Delivers the Oppressed

The events of the last few weeks have left many people in our country weary....

December 15, 2014

Monica Miller and Christopher Driscoll Engage in Impolite Conversation with John L. Jackson, Jr.

In the first installment in this new series, Conversations in Black, Miller and Driscoll talk...

December 15, 2014

#DialInForJustice: A Faith-Rooted Initiative To End Police Brutality

by Andrew Wilkes Special to R3 This first appeared on HuffingtonPost To be black in...

December 13, 2014

Learning the Live with Labels

by Kimberly Macharia Special to R3 When labels are placed onto human beings, something scary...

December 12, 2014

Faith, Inc. and Criminal Justice Reform

Nothing about religion in the public sphere is uncomplicated. And those attendant complications permeate the...

December 11, 2014

Mere Republicanity? How Millennials are Changing the “Christian Right” (Pt. 1)

[This article has been adapted from a paper delivered at the 2014 American Academy of...

December 11, 2014

Jesus Can’t Breathe: a Spiritual Problem That Begs a Spiritual Response

My friend, Peter Heltzel, and a cohort of some 75 faith leaders in New York...

December 10, 2014

White Evangelicals, Southern Baptists, and #BlackLivesMatter

As several recent posts here show, I’m not terribly optimistic about the capacity of white...

December 10, 2014

After Ferguson: America Must Abandon “Sick Christianity”

Our present moment is not about the occasional killing of black men, or about poor...

December 08, 2014

Communion and White Fear

As demonstrations continue around the country, protesting the deaths of African American men at the...

December 08, 2014

On the Journey to White Shame

The human relations I valued most were held cheap by the world I lived in....

December 07, 2014

Healing the Racial Wounds in America

Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis and Rev. Dr. Serene Jones talk about the importance of love,...

December 07, 2014

In Troubled Times, Does ‘The Black Church’ Still Matter?

African-American clergy, academics and activists will hold a march on Washington this week, protesting the...

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