by Starlette Thomas | Apr 7, 2025 | Opinion
Last week, my friend and former colleague, the Reverend Dr. Michael Bledsoe, texted me: “I am stuck praying ‘hallowed be thy name on earth as in heaven.’ I can’t move past it. I’m so grateful for your hallowing of all people and your prophetic voice.” We don’t text...
by Starlette Thomas | Apr 3, 2025 | News
A new Pew Research Center report finds that across numerous nations, one-fifth of adults surveyed have left the religion of their youth. Both Christianity and Buddhism shared the largest losses due to “religious switching.” Pew defines religious switching as “a...
by Starlette Thomas | Mar 31, 2025 | News
White supremacists in the current administration are working overtime to restore America to the Jim Crow era. Threatening African Americans with a good time by removing a requirement prohibiting segregated facilities in new federal contracts—though it is still illegal...
by Starlette Thomas | Mar 24, 2025 | Opinion
The Trump administration is known for its bans on abortion, paper straws, gender-affirming care, words, and books. It’s all piling up, so it’s hard for many Americans to see their way clear. Some are asking, “How did we get here?” But now the explicit ban on...
by Starlette Thomas | Mar 17, 2025 | Opinion
In the summer of 2020, I left my home in Bowie, Maryland, and traveled to Washington, D.C. We were far from having a cure for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), with the first human case being reported in December of 2019. But George Floyd had been viciously murdered...
