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...
by Starlette Thomas | Mar 11, 2025 | News
According to a new study from Lifeway Research, one in four Americans (26%) surveyed observe Lent, while 74% skip the 40-day observation before Easter, which is traditionally marked by fasting. The two groups most likely to say they participate in Lent are Catholics...
by Starlette Thomas | Mar 10, 2025 | Opinion
“Was that ‘The Color Purple’?” I turned to my teenage cousin and asked as the lights in the theater came on. “Yes,” she said. I couldn’t believe what I had seen. I was six years old when the film adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epistolary novel...
by Starlette Thomas | Mar 7, 2025 | Feature, Feature|News|The Raceless Gospel Initiative
The second edition of “African Americans and Religious Freedom: New Perspectives for Congregations and Communities” was released on February 28. A new preface ushers in a collection of essays rich and dynamic in religious practices, political cultures, and knowledge...
by Starlette Thomas | Mar 6, 2025 | News
The Pew Research Center shares its Religious Landscape Study (RLS) and finds Christianity in the United States, which has been on a steady decline, is stabilizing. The percentage of those who identify as “religiously unaffiliated” has increased. Over the past 17...
