Amazing Grace
250 years later, ‘Amazing Grace’ has filled churches, concerts, even commercials
By Adelle M. Banks — October 31, 2023
(RNS) — Says author James Walvin: ‘its words speak to a human condition of suffering, and people coming out of suffering, and its music has a kind of haunting refrain that soothes.’
Pastor urges sadness, not rage, after white shooter kills 3 Black people in Florida
By Russ Bynum and Aaron Morrison — August 29, 2023
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The latest in a long history of American racist killings was at the forefront of Sunday services at St. Paul AME Church, about 3 miles from the crime scene.
On Jan. 6, vigils recall the insurrection with competing narratives
By Jack Jenkins — January 7, 2022
WASHINGTON (RNS) — From calls to pass voting rights legislation to assertions that those charged in connection with the insurrection are being mistreated, vigils remembered the attack on the U.S. Capitol differently.
Jennifer Hudson: Their shared faith ‘definitely’ helped her depict Aretha Franklin in ‘Respect’
By Adelle M. Banks — August 5, 2021
(RNS) — ‘We felt it was very important to maintain her faith throughout the film in telling her story because that was her base,’ Hudson said of the R&B star.
Harry Connick Jr., bunkered for the pandemic, emerges with ‘Alone With My Faith’
By Maina Mwaura — April 6, 2021
(RNS) — While it’s reverent, the album is anything but churchy.
Obama speechwriter’s memoir ‘Grace’ to come out in 2022
By Hillel Italie — February 2, 2021
NEW YORK (AP) — Cody Keenan's memoir is set around the time a white supremacist murdered nine Black parishioners in South Carolina.
How a courtroom ritual of forgiveness absolves white America
By J. Kameron Carter — October 4, 2019
(RNS) — American religion needs black (and native) forgiveness in order to keep the national fantasy of civil society, which is antiblack, alive, writes J. Kameron Carter.
Aretha Franklin sings sweet sounds, recalls roots in ‘Amazing Grace’ documentary
By Adelle M. Banks — April 24, 2019
(RNS) — The long-awaited documentary was delayed for almost five decades in part because of technical issues.
As evangelicals win with Trump, little ‘good news’ is left in the religious right
By Jacob Lupfer — November 7, 2018
(RNS) — Trumpism is now business as usual for white evangelicalism, and white evangelical politics are inseparable from Trump's.
Aretha Franklin started with gospel, ended with soul at age 76
By Adelle M. Banks — August 16, 2018
(RNS) — At age 14 and much later in life, the R&B singer recorded gospel songs at her father's Detroit church.
Funerals held for slain police
By RNS staff — July 14, 2016
DALLAS -- Thousands of police officers joined by ordinary citizens attended funerals for three of the policemen shot dead in a racially motivated ambush attack last week that intensified America's long-running debate on race and justice.
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