Robert M. Franklin

Robert M. Franklin is an author at Religion News Service.

All Stories by Robert M. Franklin

What kind of fool is Trump? (COMMENTARY)

By Robert M. Franklin — February 19, 2016
(RNS) Trump has found himself in an adversarial posture with the Holy, and may now be eligible for the kind of breakthrough mission in the kingdom of God that can be found in the Bible.

COMMENTARY: Can the Church Save African-American Families?

By Robert M. Franklin — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service (Robert M. Franklin is a senior fellow at the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion, and a Presidential Distinguished Professor of Social Ethics at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.) (UNDATED) According to the developmental psychologist, Erik Erikson, healthy and fulfilled adults all have an important characteristic in common: […]

COMMENTARY: The death and rebirth of a president: time for rituals of renewal

By Robert M. Franklin — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (The Rev. Robert Franklin, theologian and author, is the president of the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta.) UNDATED _ Last week, I attended the White House prayer breakfast. President Clinton used the occasion to offer his most elaborate confession to date. It was a scene of Shakespearean, even biblical, proportions. […]
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