Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Dexter Scott King remembered during memorial as keeper of his father Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream
By Mark Thiessen — February 12, 2024
The memorial service for Dexter King was held at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where his father once was pastor.
A Dallas pastor steps into Jesse Jackson’s role as leader of his Rainbow PUSH Coalition
By Jamie Stengle — February 1, 2024
DALLAS (AP) — The civil rights group founded by the Rev. Jesse Jackson in the 1970s is elevating a new leader for the first time in more than 50 years.
Leaning into the hope of Advent when the world feels so dark
By Knox Thames — December 15, 2023
(RNS) — Human rights advocates are experiencing a painful purgatory of in-betweenness.
How a little-known editor made God a bestseller by helping Americans let go of religion
By Bob Smietana — March 13, 2023
(RNS) — A chance encounter at a party led religion professor Stephen Prothero to rediscover the story of Eugene Exman, a longtime book publisher who helped transform American religion.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s hard words for white Christians
By Robert P. Jones — January 17, 2022
(RNS) — King’s exasperation at self-satisfied white Christians holds up a mirror that is still painfully accurate today.
Christian ethicist Donald W. Shriver Jr., who called America to repent of racism, dies
By Yonat Shimron — August 9, 2021
(RNS) — The former president of Union Theological Seminary in New York, Shriver believed public repentance was the only hope for 'a future less evil than our pasts.'
The meaning of Tulsa
By Cheryl Townsend Gilkes — May 28, 2021
(RNS) — Unspoken and unspeakable, the Greenwood Massacre is a painful bulwark in the broken soul of America.
Brenda Salter McNeil on racial justice: ‘Silence is violence’
By Adelle M. Banks — August 14, 2020
(RNS) — Brenda Salter McNeil, pastor, writer and speaker, says in her new book, 'Becoming Brave,' that now is the time for Christians to act for racial justice.
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.
Crowds mark 50 years since MLK funeral
By The Associated Press — April 9, 2018
ATLANTA (AP) - Relatives of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led more than 1,000 people on a march Monday in downtown Atlanta, where large crowds gathered 50 years earlier for the slain civil rights leader's funeral procession as a mule-drawn wagon pulled his casket through the streets.
In Washington, clergy demonstrate against white supremacy
By Adelle M. Banks — August 28, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Some questioned the morality of Trump administration policies.
Black Southern Baptists: ‘We are pulling for Dr. Moore’
By Adelle M. Banks — March 14, 2017
(RNS) With 81 percent of white evangelicals supporting Trump in the November election and Southern Baptists striving to improve on their history that includes a defense of slavery, the questions roiling around Moore have included matters of race.
‘We Shall Not Be Moved’ marchers honor King, fight fear of Trump
By Adelle M. Banks — January 14, 2017
(RNS) The mostly African-American throng, smaller than expected due to the rain, heard civic and religious leaders address health care, voting rights, economic equality and police reform.
In her own words: Coretta Scott King on faith, materialism and grief
By Adelle M. Banks — January 13, 2017
(RNS) She helped type and edit her husband's sermons and rejected the asceticism he had wanted to model after traveling to India and studying Gandhi's words. Excerpts from her book, as told to the Rev. Barbara Reynolds.
Rev. Joan Brown Campbell recalls her pioneering ministry
By Adelle M. Banks — April 6, 2016
(RNS) Campbell said clergywomen attaining top leadership positions "still is something that is out of the ordinary."
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