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...
by Nathan Napier | Jun 13, 2022 | Opinion
A lone human standing motionless in front of a row of armored tanks is the image on the cover of Thomas Slater’s Revelation as Civil Disobedience (Abingdon Press, 2019) The cover design is prescient, as is Slater’s observation that “Christians are to put their faith...
by Starlette Thomas | May 16, 2022 | News
Many Americans are fighting over history or better still, the preservation of their version of it. From Civil War monuments to critical race theory, how we want to remember people, places and things continues to divide the United States. But talking to the people who...
by Dale K. Edmondson | Apr 19, 2022 | Opinion
It was 83 years ago this Easter, April 19, that Marian Anderson gave her memorable concert at the Lincoln Memorial. Wearing her fur coat on a cool, damp and drizzly afternoon, she began to sing: “My country, ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee, I sing.” Six...
