by Starlette Thomas | Jul 10, 2026 | News
Baptists from 60 countries assembled for the Baptist World Alliance’s annual gathering under the banner: “The Table of Christ: One Gospel, Many People” in Toronto, Canada from July 6-10. In partnership with Canadian Baptist Ministries, the North American Baptist...
by Starlette Thomas | Jul 6, 2026 | Opinion
“She Speaks: Black Women Artists and the Power of Historical Memory” is a highly innovative exhibition that explores 250 years of American history through the lens of womanism. The art is on view at the Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum in Annapolis, Maryland through...
by Starlette Thomas | Jul 3, 2026 | News
National pride is decreasing. Ahead of the nation’s semiquincentennial this July 4, a new Gallup poll finds just 33% of citizens polled are “extremely proud” to be American, a quarter century low in Gallup polling that started in 2001. An additional 20% of respondents...
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 27, 2026 | Opinion, Opinion|The Raceless Gospel Initiative
Coined by Robin DiAngelo, the phrase “white fragility” refers to a state in which even a minimal amount of “racial” stress becomes intolerable to individuals racialized as white, triggering defensive behaviors. I happen to think it’s nonsense. White ignorance often...
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 22, 2026 | Opinion
Systemic racism is often reinforced through a structural, learned ignorance that allows dominant groups to misunderstand the world they inhabit. It is an intentional refusal to recognize the historical and ongoing structural advantages of one group over another due to...
