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Multiracial churches increase as blacks, whites learn to worship together
By Adelle M. Banks — June 29, 2018
(RNS) — As a new study shows that multiracial churches are on the rise, leaders of intercultural congregations say it takes perseverance to maintain diversity in their pulpits and their pews.
Austin Channing Brown: White people are ‘exhausting’
By Emily McFarlan Miller — May 9, 2018
(RNS) — Austin Channing Brown, author of 'I'm Still Here,' talked to Religion News Service about how the church is missing out when it doesn't listen to black voices, how awkward even progressive spaces can be and how white people can be less exhausting.
Modern-day crucifixions
By Jennifer Jones — April 6, 2018
(RNS) — Black men nationwide are still disproportionately killed by police. Each name turned hashtag reminds us that the scales of justice seem permanently tilted away from black and brown people in the United States.
King in Montgomery: A white Southern Baptist minister reflects
By Alan Cross — April 5, 2018
(RNS) — If we benefit from the status quo, we can seek to maintain it rather than recognize that a wheel of injustice might be grinding our neighbor down. King shone a light on that injustice and it often made white Christians uncomfortable. His words and legacy, if we listen, still make us uncomfortable today.
Faith-based education group is calling out Betsy DeVos
By Jack Jenkins — April 3, 2018
(RNS) — 'Our scripture says we’re all created in the image of God and are, therefore, of equal and immeasurable worth in the eyes of our Creator,' reads an open letter to the education secretary from the founder of The Expectations Project.
Survey: Protestant church diversity ‘heading in the right direction’
By RNS staff — March 21, 2018
(RNS) — A new survey published by LifeWay Research suggests Protestant churches still are diversifying slowly — despite reports of a 'quiet exodus' of people of color from predominantly white evangelical churches.
‘Rethinking Incarceration’ author on justice, race and the fact Jesus was incarcerated
By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 14, 2018
(RNS) — 'The church has really failed to be present with Jesus behind bars, and because we’ve failed to go be present with Jesus behind bars, our faith has been impoverished,' said Dominique DuBois Gilliard.
Billy Graham helped give white evangelicals a pass on civil rights — scholars
By Christine A. Scheller — March 1, 2018
(RNS) — While he is remembered for speaking out against racism and segregation during his later revivals, some scholars argue that he gave white evangelicals a safe alternative to civil rights engagement.
Trump’s religious advisers are out of step with Rev. King’s legacy
By R. Khari Brown — January 22, 2018
(RNS) — The council is largely out of step with the groups they claim to represent, religious Americans in general and evangelicals more specifically.
Sister Simone Campbell: Time to talk about race, poverty and justice
By Simone Campbell — December 19, 2017
(RNS) We asked Sister Simone Campbell, who leads NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice, to consider what 2018 will mean for religion.
Margari Aziza Hill: A time of interfaith mass movement
By Religion News Service — December 19, 2017
(RNS) We asked Margari Aziza Hill, MuslimARC co-founder, to consider what 2018 will mean for religion.
The Ruby Woo pilgrimage: Hear the pulpits roar
By Lisa Sharon Harper — November 16, 2017
(RNS) — Christian, evangelical, feminist activist Lisa Sharon Harper explains how she came to lead the 'Ruby Woo' pilgrimage.
Farrakhan rekindles controversies about race, Jews, 9/11 in speech at Watergate Hotel
By Adelle M. Banks — November 16, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The 84-year-old Nation of Islam leader dove into all sorts of controversies – from slavery to the unhealthy water in Flint, Mich., to current reports of sexual harassment by national leaders and celebrities.
Mormon whiteness, the alt-right and Charlottesville
By Martin E. Marty — September 26, 2017
(RNS) — There is no surprise that Mormon whiteness is newly discussed at a time when alt-right agitators and Charlottesville demonstrators have provoked discussion of the meaning of 'white.'
My Sharpton problem — and ours
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 29, 2017
Has Reverend Al Sharpton changed? Let's hope so.
