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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.
Racism and the American Church with Jemar Tisby
By Ray Kirstein — March 9, 2024
Host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush talks with Dr. Jemar Tisby, author of "The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church's Complicity in Racism" and "How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Towards Racial Justice"
Begin Again with Eddie Glaude, Jr.
By Ray Kirstein — February 3, 2024
State of Belief host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush talks with Dr. Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of the book Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Time
National Association of Evangelicals launches test to assess, foster racial justice
By Adelle M. Banks — September 25, 2023
(RNS) — ‘We didn't really want to recreate the wheel,’ said NAE’s new racial justice and reconciliation expert. ‘We wanted to bridge a gap that was existing.’
Most faith groups agree US has gone astray. They don’t agree on the way forward.
By Adelle M. Banks — October 27, 2022
(RNS) — The research, released shortly before Election Day, sheds light on questions of race, sexuality, abortion and immigration as well as sentiments about the country’s origins.
The Jews are not a race. They are a tribe.
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 13, 2022
(RNS) — It is why we were ashamed of Bernie Madoff. Among other things.
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church celebrates paid-off debts at major meeting
By Adelle M. Banks — July 28, 2021
(RNS) — ‘Livingstone College, Hood seminary, and Clinton College — debts have all been satisfied,’ announced AME Zion Bishop George Edward Battle Jr.
Russell Moore leaves Southern Baptist leadership, but denomination’s troubles remain
By Bob Smietana — May 21, 2021
NASHVILLE (RNS) — Southern Baptists have long been able to find enough consensus to cooperate on missions. In recent years, they've become less cooperative because of debates over race, politics and the role of women in the church.
Faith leaders praise Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdicts, acknowledge work ahead
By RNS staff — April 20, 2021
(RNS) — Religious leaders and faith-based organizations reacted swiftly to the verdicts.
Study: Multiracial Methodist churches draw and keep more people than their white counterparts
By Yonat Shimron — April 16, 2021
(RNS) — The 6.6 million-member United Methodist Church is predominantly white. But its racially diverse congregations are faring better than white churches at a time when the denomination as a whole is experiencing declining attendance.
VeggieTales creator Phil Vischer calls evangelicalism a ‘hot mess.’ He hasn’t given up hope.
By Bob Smietana — February 24, 2021
(RNS) — For nearly three decades, the VeggieTales creator has been making people laugh while telling them about Jesus. Now, spurred by his faith, he has been attending to the recent struggles of American evangelicals.
SBC President J.D. Greear: ‘God did not call Southern Baptists to save America’
By Bob Smietana — February 22, 2021
(RNS) — In a speech to the SBC Executive Committee meeting, Greear asked, ‘Do we want to be a gospel people, or a Southern culture people? Which is the more important part of our name — Southern or Baptist?’
SBC report calls never-Trumper Russell Moore’s agency a ‘significant distraction’
By Bob Smietana — February 1, 2021
(RNS) — A new report claims a decline in giving is linked to controversial statements — including criticism of Trump — by a leading Baptist ethicist.
How a quarantine matchmaking project for Muslims found itself navigating anti-Blackness
By Aysha Khan — August 10, 2020
(RNS) — Through Eye Meets Soul, a virtual blind matchmaking experience for Muslim millennials, founders hoped personal appearance, race and ethnicity would fade into the background. Easier said than done.
Evangelical leaders are speaking up about race — but will this new focus last?
By Adelle M. Banks — July 1, 2020
(RNS) — Highlights of a forthcoming study, which looks at racism, biblical interpretation and church cultures, may indicate a long struggle ahead.
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