Anthea Butler
Sandra Crouch, influential musician, minister, sister of Andraé Crouch, dead at 81
By Adelle M. Banks — March 25, 2024
(RNS) — ‘You don’t get a driver’s license to learn how to drive,’ she said of her controversial ordination. ‘You get a license because you know how to drive.’
White Evangelical Racism: Anthea Butler
By Ray Kirstein — February 17, 2024
State of Belief host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush talks with Dr. Anthea Butler, author of "White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America", about her appearance in the new Christian nationalism documentary "God & Country"
‘God & Country’ shirks its opportunity to confront mainstream evangelicalism
By Tyler Huckabee — February 13, 2024
(RNS) — The documentary largely fails to explore its porous boundary with Christian nationalism.
Bishop T.D. Jakes continues longtime commitment to Md. revival in wake of rumors
By Adelle M. Banks — January 12, 2024
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (RNS) — ‘I love you back,’ he told those who welcomed him back to the revival. ‘I feel your prayers. I’m thankful to God for them.’
How evangelical Christian writer Jemar Tisby became a radioactive symbol of ‘wokeness’
By Bob Smietana — May 30, 2023
(RNS)–Once an evangelical insider with a textbook conversion story, Tisby has become persona non grata in some Christian circles for his books on race and religion, including the 2019 bestseller, ‘The Color of Compromise.’
Kyle Rittenhouse, whiteness and a divinely ordained license to kill
By Robert P. Jones — November 20, 2021
(RNS) — The danger we're facing goes beyond a rogue killer.
Albert Raboteau, expert on African American religious history, dead at 78
By Adelle M. Banks — September 24, 2021
(RNS) — The scholar ‘was the Godfather of Afro-American Religious Studies & the North Star of deep Christian political sensibilities!’ said colleague Cornel West.
‘You can’t think yourself out of racism’: Black religion scholars call for conversion
By Renée Roden — August 18, 2021
(RNS) — Black religion scholars say their work is routinely undervalued and their advancement blocked by a bias that sees the study of Black religious experience as secondary to white theology.
Gina Stewart becomes first woman elected to lead US Black Baptist organization
By Adelle M. Banks — August 16, 2021
(RNS) — Stewart, the senior pastor of a church in Memphis, Tennessee, previously served in vice presidential roles of the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Society for six years.
William Pannell wrote ‘The Coming Race Wars?’ nearly 30 years ago. It still resonates today
By Alejandra Molina — August 6, 2021
(RNS) — Pannell’s book serves as a historical reflection but 'also as a statement on how far we haven’t come.'
Evangelical disillusionment is finding a home in book clubs
By Isaiah Murtaugh — March 25, 2021
(RNS) — Evangelicals who are questioning often do so in isolation — but some are now looking for community. And they’re finding it in book clubs, reading the growing market of deconstructionist and justice-oriented literature.
‘Scholar strike’ for racial injustice includes divinity school professors
By Adelle M. Banks — September 8, 2020
(RNS) — Faculty at Yale Divinity School, Vanderbilt Divinity School and Brite Divinity School ‘are participating in teach-ins,’ an organizer said.
How Jesus became white — and why it’s time to cancel that
By Emily McFarlan Miller — June 24, 2020
CHICAGO (RNS) — Nearly a century later, both ‘Head of Christ’ and criticism of its role in enshrining Jesus as white endure.
Letter: Nationalism is anathema to Christian faith
By Yonat Shimron — August 19, 2019
(RNS) — The letter in the magazine Commonweal was a direct response to a letter in the conservative journal First Things that embraced the new nationalism.
Religious scholars weigh risks, rewards of speaking out
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 26, 2018
DENVER (RNS) — It's become important for scholars to share their knowledge in an era of fake news and religious divisions. It's also become dangerous.
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