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November 09, 2014

Preserving the Confederacy and Christianity in Mississippi

If passed, a measure being considered for Mississippi’s 2016 ballots would make Christianity the state...

November 09, 2014

Millennials and Religion

November 09, 2014

Retribution and Rhetoric in the NT Epistles – Brad Jersak with Peter Hordern

The following is a dialogue between Brad Jersak and Peter Hordern, about Pauls' use of...

November 06, 2014

Religion and Electronic Media

In an average week, one-in-five Americans share their religious faith online, about the same percentage...

November 06, 2014

Engaging the City: Urban Theology After #Ferguson

R3 editor, Dr. Andre E. Johnson, Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Religion and African American...

November 06, 2014

Was God Around for Michael Brown? A Humanist Perspective on Ferguson

by Katherine WhitfieldR3 ContributorFollow Katherine on Twitter @curlyheffHumanism is roughly defined as a belief system...

November 06, 2014

Who Has the Authority to Write Theology?

We live in an age of unprecedented theological production. At no point in church history...

November 06, 2014

Race, Religion, and Teaching in Prison

by Miles S. Mullin, IIR3 ContributorPost appeared first on the Anxious Bench BlogThe St. Louis...

November 06, 2014

Revolutionary Emancipation and Religion

Religion and left revolution may seem like opposite ends of an insurmountable spectrum. After all,...

November 05, 2014

Call for Proposals for 16th Annual Graduate Student Conference in African-American History

The Graduate Association for African-American History (GAAAH) at The University of Memphis invites graduate students...

November 03, 2014

Toward a Definition of “Religious” Cinema

Here is a small project for a chilly Thursday night: let's rethink the way we...

November 01, 2014

Repentance, Resistance, Revolution

"Officer, you are part of a sinful system that is responsible for the death of...

November 01, 2014

MTSO Appoints Valerie Bridgeman Associate Professor

Methodist Theological School in Ohio has appointed Valerie Bridgeman associate professor of homiletics and Hebrew...

October 2014

October 28, 2014

Call for Papers: Reparing Community: Faith-Based Responses to Racial Disparities and Conflict

African-descended communities across the globe are suffering effects of political, economic and social inequities whose...

October 28, 2014

Godless Millennials Could End the Political Power of the Religious Right

The 2014 midterm elections are drawing near, and it appears that the Democrats may well...

October 26, 2014

Theology at the Service of Humanity

Like the authors of Occupy Religion: Theology of the Multitude, I find in many of my...

October 26, 2014

Candy in the Wilderness: The Hagar Narrative as a Subtext in Tyler Perry’s “Madea Goes to Jail”

By Katherine WhitfieldR3 Contributor“Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave-girl, and gave her...

October 26, 2014

R3 Contributor: Katherine Whitfield

Katherine Whitfield moved to Memphis, Tenn., in 2000 to attend Rhodes College. She graduated in...

October 25, 2014

White Fragility and White Violence in America

In 1900, W. E. B. Du Bois declared that "the problem of the 20th century"...

October 25, 2014

Theologies of Word and State: Some Reflections on the Ottawa Shooting

The shooting in Ottawa on 22 October 2014 has uncovered the remarkable way that the...

October 24, 2014

Are the Gods Afraid of Black Sexuality?

We are living through a moment of tremendous change at the intersection of race, religion,...

October 22, 2014

Alex Haley’s 1965 Playboy Interview with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

In 1964, after he had won the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....

October 22, 2014

2014 Beecher Lectures: Otis Moss III

October 22, 2014

R3 Contributor: Nikia Smith Robert

Rev. Nikia Smith Robert enthusiastically embraces her divine purpose to preach, teach and engage in...

October 22, 2014

When and Where I Grieve

By Yolanda Pierce, Ph.D.,from KineticsLive.comThe tears started while I was sitting in a Barnes and...

October 22, 2014

Ferguson and the Church’s Responsibility: A Call to Black Power

In July 1966, an informal group of clergy met to discuss events that had happened...

October 22, 2014

Atheists in Foxholes: The Military Chaplaincy’s Humanist Problem

Do American military chaplains need to believe in God? Or, as the Navy Times once...

October 20, 2014

Ferguson: ‘The ‘Come to Jesus’ Moment for Us in the Church’

Danielle Dowd was back in front of the Ferguson police department Oct. 15, just two...

October 20, 2014

Sean Scott on Religious Rhetoric in the US Civil War

As we approach the sesquicentennial mark of the cessation of hostilities in the US Civil...

October 19, 2014

Beyond Belief: Postmodernity & Religion

As I have read more writing on postmodernism I have begun to question many of...

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