Kanye West
Who is Trump and Kanye’s dinner companion, Nick Fuentes?
By Jack Jenkins and Paul O'Donnell — November 27, 2022
(RNS) — Last year the 24-year-old right-wing media personality told an audience that the United States will cease to be America 'if it loses its white demographic core and if it loses its faith in Jesus Christ.'
Is antisemitism still the third rail of prejudice?
By Mark Silk — October 28, 2022
(RNS) — Yes, but there's still plenty to worry about.
Antisemitism decried four years after Pa. synagogue attack
By Peter Smith — October 27, 2022
PITTSBURGH (AP) — For many community leaders, their grief is mixed with dismay over the continued and growing incidents of antisemitism in the United States and beyond.
White House condemns Kanye-fueled antisemitic freeway demonstration in Los Angeles
By Alejandra Molina — October 24, 2022
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — The freeway demonstration on Saturday comes after Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, was blocked from posting on Twitter and Instagram over antisemitic posts.
We can’t overlook Kanye West’s antisemitism even if we’re tired of Ye news
By Da'Shawn Mosley — October 12, 2022
(RNS) — It’s one thing to recognize commonalities between marginalized groups. But it is something both immoral and threatening to steal an identity.
Hollywood Jews must condemn Kanye
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 11, 2022
(RNS) — Kanye goes full violent antisemite. From the Jews in the entertainment industry: mostly crickets.
New Netflix docuseries ‘jeen-yuhs’ chronicles Kanye West’s belief in God and himself
By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 16, 2022
CHICAGO (RNS) — The docuseries is a reminder West’s complicated relationship with Christianity reaches back further than ‘Jesus Is King’ and his recent elaborate Sunday Service events.
Marilyn Manson, Ye and the art of the troll
By Ryan Hamm — November 3, 2021
(RNS) — These days, Ye's albums are largely minor blips on the radar. All his press is for the dumb things he does. It’s hard not to think that’s by design.
On Kanye West’s ‘Donda,’ faith is the message — or a metaphor
By Jillian Cheney — August 31, 2021
(RNS) — Critics have called the album unfocused and rambling, but fans are raving about the surprise release.
5 ‘in real life’ religion and pop culture clashes from 2020
By Roxanne Stone and Emily McFarlan Miller — December 30, 2020
(RNS) — Kanye ran for president. Rihanna faced backlash from Muslims. A French-language film caused many conservative religious people to #CancelNetflix.
Kanye West, Christian chaos candidate, trumps the Trump model
By Tara Isabella Burton — August 18, 2020
(RNS) — Kanye’s presidential campaign may tell us as much about our spiritual disillusionment as it does his mental health.
Kanye’s running for president — and his platform has a lot of God in it
By Jack Jenkins — July 8, 2020
(RNS) — The rapper hinted that his presidential run may be his most overt fusion of faith and politics yet, with religion impacting everything from his decision to run to his views on vaccines.
This LA megachurch has served 350,000 free meals during pandemic
By Alejandra Molina — April 22, 2020
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — The Dream Center, the nonprofit of the Pentecostal megachurch Angelus Temple, doesn’t appear to plan on stopping.
Kanye, Flame and Augustine: Hip-hop and the conversion narrative
By A. Trevor Sutton — February 4, 2020
(RNS) — Hip-hop conversion stories such as Kanye's and Flame's have as much a place in the discourse about religious conversion narratives as does Augustine's 'Confessions.'
With Joel Osteen, Kanye drops a clue about his faith, and his kinship with Trump
By Joshua Lazard — November 21, 2019
(RNS) — If Kanye’s understanding of God comes through the lens of African American New Thought, his egotism, ostentation and seeming megalomania have a historical and theological context.
