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Matthew Johnson Harris uses faith to leverage the theater’s power to heal
By Benjamin Spratt and Joshua Stanton — April 11, 2024
(RNS) — Bringing faith into the theater world, not to proselytize but to invite conversations about identity and hurt.
Leo Frank’s ghost still haunts us
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 31, 2023
It's not just a Broadway musical. It is a pervasive memory. Jew hatred persists.
Mental illness is hurting Black faith communities. Prayer shouldn’t be our only defense.
By Kenneth C. Ulmer — August 4, 2020
(RNS) — African Americans are more likely to go to the altar than go to a therapist. We need to acknowledge that professional help, when combined with prayer and with the comfort of a community of believers, is a gift from God.
Kneeling to venerate hate: The meaning of a police killing in Minnesota
By Cheryl Townsend Gilkes — May 27, 2020
(RNS) — When we see a white police officer kneeling on a black body, we are witnessing an act of worship honoring the demons of racism.
The hero of the film ‘Just Mercy’ could be you
By Shane Claiborne — January 2, 2020
(RNS) — The biopic about the work of Bryan Stevenson isn't about a man, but a social justice movement that any one of us can join.
Red Summer, Trump Summer and the politics of hate
By Cheryl Townsend Gilkes — August 16, 2019
(RNS) — Calling Trump 'un-American' exhibits an ignorance of the violent forces — conquest, enslavement, annexation and immigration — that made America.
Montgomery, Ala., churches part of city’s 200-year history of slavery, civil rights
By Adelle M. Banks — August 1, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (RNS) — 'It is the cradle of the Confederacy and the birthplace of the modern civil rights movement,' said a local church historian.
James Cone, the cross, and the lynching memorial
By Jemar Tisby — April 30, 2018
(RNS) — James Cone refused to assign any authenticity to a religion that claimed to be Christian but did not address the liberation of black people from white supremacy.
Religious leaders mark centennial of S.C. lynching
By Adelle M. Banks — October 21, 2016
(RNS) Representatives of seminaries, church councils and Presbyterian and Lutheran denominations plan to make the trek to the remote town where Anthony Crawford was lynched.
Racial reconciliation demands Christians reconsider the death penalty (COMMENTARY)
By Antipas L. Harris — April 1, 2015
(RNS) At the same time that the Southern Baptist Convention apologizes for its complicity in racial oppression and urges racial reconciliation, the denomination remains a vocal proponent of capital punishment.
COMMENTARY: Concealed handguns a form of white social control
By Mark I. Pinsky — July 15, 2013
(RNS) Part of the problem lies with with the lunatic -- and, I would argue, racist -- manner in which the Florida legislature has defined self-defense. You can start a fight for any reason, and if you begin to lose the altercation, and feel you are about to suffer grave body harm, you can kill the other person with totally immunity.
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