by Starlette Thomas | Jul 14, 2022 | Opinion|The Raceless Gospel Initiative
The Baptist World Alliance held its first hybrid annual gathering in Birmingham, Alabama, this week, taking on the issue of race as an institution. Not a theme or thread of the meeting, Christian believers gathered from around the world to talk about justice, but not...
by Starlette Thomas | Jul 11, 2022 | Opinion
These are traumatizing times. Cases of police brutality present a large body of evidence that we remain deeply disconnected from each other — not as Americans, or as liberals, moderates or conservatives, or as people of faith and no faith, or as “pro-life” or...
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 27, 2022 | Opinion
It is the season after Pentecost, but the North American church should not stop seeing red. Not “fighting mad” but a righteous anger in response to injustice is warranted. After an extensive report of the sexual misconduct of Southern Baptist Convention clergy, the...
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 20, 2022 | Opinion|The Raceless Gospel Initiative
America is celebrating Juneteenth as a federal holiday for the second year. Celebrated on June 19 each year by African Americans and considered the community’s Independence Day, the day is set aside to celebrate the end of slavery in the U.S. The oldest known...
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 13, 2022 | Opinion
Before there was the “other,” there was the heathen. Christian believers have a long and troubled history of calling people names as a means of explaining their inhumane ways of bringing them to Jesus. Kathryn Gin Lum’s new book Heathen: Religion and Race in American...
