Reinhold Niebuhr
We must confront radical evil
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 21, 2023
(RNS) — Is Hamas a form of mythic, cosmic evil? Think about it.
Colleagues mourn the loss of Richard Gustav Niebuhr, religion journalist and professor
By Bob Smietana — November 10, 2023
(RNS) — A former national religion reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and New York Times, Niebuhr is remembered as a careful reporter and generous colleague.
New book links the decline of religious authority to the end of empathy
By Yonat Shimron — October 6, 2020
(RNS) — John Compton’s ‘The End of Empathy’ shows how the collapse of religious authority in the 1960s led Christians to evangelical megachurches that resist any efforts at social reform.
How to really preach truth to power
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 20, 2020
It takes theological courage to live in this world. A beloved thinker teaches us how to do that.
Christian churches own up to the futility of converting the Jews
By A. James Rudin — September 27, 2019
(RNS) — Throughout history, church and political authorities have used horrendous physical, emotional and psychological pressures in fruitless conversion campaigns.
For storied civil rights center, Highlander Center fire is an echo of the past
By Yonat Shimron — April 5, 2019
(RNS) — This isn't the first time the renowned civil rights center, where the Rev. Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks came to strategize, has been targeted.
What Comey learned from theologian Reinhold Niebuhr about ethical leadership
By Christopher Beem — April 24, 2018
(The Conversation) — Reviewers have noted the influence of one particular 20th-century American Christian philosopher in James' Comey's new book: Reinhold Niebuhr.
From the black church to India: The theology of Martin Luther King Jr.
By Kimberly Winston — April 2, 2018
(RNS) — Montgomery. Albany. Birmingham. Selma. Washington, D.C. In each of these places King demonstrated an evolving theology.
RNS Best of 2017: After 30 years, a farewell column
By David P. Gushee — December 27, 2017
(RNS) — David Gushee closes his column to return to life as a scholar — leaving behind culture wars and the fights over and within evangelicalism.
After 30 years, a farewell column
By David P. Gushee — September 14, 2017
(RNS) — 'Perhaps voices will emerge that will enable us to find new ways forward together, past the screaming and the litigation, through a return to deeper theological and ecclesial wellsprings. I pray that this is so,' writes David Gushee.
Niebuhr and the situation
By Martin E. Marty — April 5, 2017
The most promising response would be for those inspired by the film, as well as by old and new books by and about Niebuhr, not to ask “Who are the new Niebuhrs?” or “Why are there no new Niebuhrs?” We should be concerned less with who he was than with what he did.
The Christian intellectual tradition is alive and well
By Jacob Lupfer — August 31, 2016
(RNS) So why have commentators bemoaned the absence of Christian thinkers as authoritative voices in American public debates?
Why Michele Bachmann’s push to convert Jews is so retro (COMMENTARY)
By A. James Rudin — November 27, 2015
(RNS) When she visited Israel earlier this month, Michele Bachmann urged Jews to convert to Christianity as soon as possible because the end times were near.
God and politics: 4 famous voices on religion, society (COMMENTARY)
By A. James Rudin — August 21, 2015
(RNS) The views of Catholic activist Dorothy Day, Jewish thinker Moses Maimonides, Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and Rabbi Stephen Wise largely contrast with the 2016 GOP presidential candidates.
Can Jews cut President Obama some slack, already?
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 2, 2015
Some Jews like to dislike President Obama. They're allowed. But, at least be fair to him.
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