identity

Black or white? Christian minister redefines racial and ethnic identity in a mixed world

By Kathryn Post — June 12, 2023
(RNS) — In his new book, 'Mixed,' Eli Bonilla Jr. urges readers to avoid approaching 'soul-deep complexity with skin-deep conversations.'

We are not all the same, and in our difference we are divine

By Simran Jeet Singh — August 30, 2019
(RNS) — Seeing oneness in difference is the only way I know for us to move beyond our supremacies and to begin treating one another as equals.

Souls and the guns of America

By Martin E. Marty — October 10, 2017
Let me be ecumenical, interracial, and multi-classy by noting that “everybody” who prosecutes the culture wars wields symbols of awareness of their losses.

It’s time we think of politics more like religion

By Arthur E. Farnsley II — December 7, 2016
(RNS) Political operatives of both parties have known for decades that voting behavior is about emotion, intuition and tribal affiliation -- just like religion.

Thomas Page McBee on his brush with death, transgender stories, and his agnostic mother

By Chris Stedman — October 23, 2014
Author Thomas Page McBee tells RNS about the religious themes of "Man Alive," the influence of his agnostic mother, religion and the transgender community, and how men can address their own privilege.

Three words Protestants don’t understand (spoiler: the first is “Protestant”)

By Tobin Grant — May 14, 2014
Protestant? Evangelical? Mainline? The average Protetestant has no idea what you're talking about.

Dismantling the “old white guy” God myth

By Jonathan Merritt — March 18, 2014
Author Margot Starbuck seeks to expose the false images of God we've constructed and help people see God's true face instead.

Evangelical pastor of church in ‘gay mecca’ speaks out about identity

By Jonathan Merritt — February 6, 2014
San Francisco pastor Dave Lomas wants to help people discover the "truest thing" about themselves.
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