Race & Religion
Doug Emhoff highlights Black interfaith contributions as new project launches
By Adelle M. Banks — February 24, 2022
(RNS) — As the Black Interfaith Project launches, Emhoff said his interfaith marriage with Kamala Harris followed the discovery that their joint values were rooted in their different faiths.
Amid book bans, Muslim authors, parents advocate for children’s books representing Islam
By Tasmiha Khan — February 21, 2022
(RNS) — For some Muslim children's book authors, the recent book bans have highlighted the need for schools to de-escalate diversity as a hot-button issue.
In ‘This Here Flesh,’ Cole Arthur Riley finds the sacred in humanity
By Kathryn Post — February 18, 2022
(RNS) — 'I think people will be surprised just how much of myself this book contains,' said the Black Liturgies author.
Racial unity: Merged Southern congregation sets an example
By Aron Ranen — February 15, 2022
KANNAPOLIS, N.C. (AP) — 'A part of our purpose is be a demonstration of unity, a demonstration of racial reconciliation in a nation that has been so divided for way too long.'
Black gay priest in NYC challenges Catholicism from within
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu — February 14, 2022
NEW YORK (AP) — The Rev. Massingale is often at odds with official Catholic teaching — he supports the ordination of women and making celibacy optional for Catholic clergy.
Princeton University scraps exhibit of Jewish American artists with Confederate ties
By Yonat Shimron — February 10, 2022
(RNS) — The exhibit was intended to showcase the little-known contributions of Jewish American artists in the period after the Civil War. The university, in the midst of reassessing its legacy, balked.
Cece Jones-Davis continues support for Julius Jones, whom she helped get off death row
By Adelle M. Banks — February 9, 2022
(RNS) — ‘She has helped move mountains that I’m not sure we even thought could be moved,’ Jones said of the advocate.
‘You can’t talk about that’: The art of sharing Sikh experiences on Netflix
By Simran Jeet Singh — February 8, 2022
(RNS) — Agam Darshi about her process in writing and producing her new film 'Donkeyhead.'
Christena Cleveland shifts from ‘white male God’ to ‘Sacred Black Feminine’
By Adelle M. Banks — February 8, 2022
(RNS) — The author of ‘God Is a Black Woman' said she’s a theist but ‘my understanding of God is not what most people would say is orthodox Christianity.’
A divinity school steps up to fight the HIV epidemic in the South
By Monique Parsons — February 7, 2022
(Interfaith America) — Wake Forest University School of Divinity in North Carolina is host to the Gilead COMPASS Faith Coordinating Center, part of a $100 million, multi-pronged effort to bring down HIV infection rates and destigmatize the disease.
How 18th-century Quakers led a boycott of sugar to protest against slavery
By Julie L. Holcomb — February 7, 2022
(The Conversation) — Eighteenth-century Quakers attempted to align their religious beliefs with what they purchased. These Quakers led some of the early campaigns against sugar being produced by enslaved people.
Lisa Sharon Harper’s ‘Fortune’ uncovers America’s racial roots in family stories
By Kathryn Post — February 3, 2022
(RNS) — Harper’s new book argues that truth-telling, reparations and forgiveness can repair what race broke in the world.
The sacred work of white discomfort
By Robert P. Jones — January 27, 2022
(RNS) — Holding a more truthful understanding of history gives us more agency, not less.
Princeton Theological Seminary removes name of slaveholder from chapel
By Kathryn Post — January 27, 2022
(RNS) — Princeton Theological Seminary’s board unanimously voted to dissociate the name of slaveholder and anti-abolitionist Samuel Miller from the school’s chapel.
Will my book be banned?
By Jemar Tisby — January 26, 2022
(RNS) — The power of books to create new realities for readers makes banning books particularly heinous.
