racism in the church
Grove City board accepts full CRT report, says college promoted CRT
By Kathryn Post — May 15, 2022
(RNS) — The conservative Christian college has been at the center of a politicized clash over critical race theory since November.
Lisa Sharon Harper’s ‘Fortune’ uncovers America’s racial roots in family stories
By Kathryn Post — February 3, 2022
(RNS) — Harper’s new book argues that truth-telling, reparations and forgiveness can repair what race broke in the world.
When Church Hurts Like Hell
By Roxanne Stone — October 20, 2021
Katelyn and Roxy, joined by Kyle J. Howard, explore why church wounds and spiritual abuse inflict such lasting damage in people's lives.
With this much rot, there’s no choice but to deconstruct
By Karen Swallow Prior — August 4, 2021
(RNS) — Church leaders, I’m talking to you.
Leaked Russell Moore letter blasts SBC conservatives, sheds light on his resignation
By Paul O'Donnell and Bob Smietana — June 2, 2021
(RNS) — In a letter written more than a year before his resignation, Moore explained his troubles with the SBC leadership in bitterly frank terms. Then-President Donald Trump barely makes an appearance.
RNS reporters on the big stories they expect to cover in 2021
By RNS staff — January 1, 2021
(RNS) — How will America’s religious landscape recover from 2020 and who will lead faith issues in new directions in the new year?
Episcopal men’s ministry loses board members, chapters over response to George Floyd’s death
By Emily McFarlan Miller — October 12, 2020
(RNS) — The Brotherhood of St. Andrew has publicly apologized and said they realize they need to do more to combat systemic racism and white privilege in the organization and beyond. Others say it has a long way to go.
For white Christians, racial justice starts with telling the truth
By Robert P. Jones — July 28, 2020
(RNS) — Perhaps the biggest obstacle to white Christians’ full participation in the movement for racial equality is an unshakable commitment to our own innocence.
Black Catholics’ history: Will US Catholic schools teach it?
By David Crary — July 27, 2020
(AP) — Top leaders are encouraging Catholic schools to place a new emphasis on teaching about racial justice, as well as the history of Black Catholics.
Rejecting symbols of hate is more than symbolic
By Jim Wallis — July 20, 2020
(RNS) — A nation that still honors Confederate signs in public places signals its belief that Black people are less important than white people, that Black people’s trauma can be disregarded.
Trump unmasked his racist campaign strategy — and Christians have choices to make
By Jim Wallis — July 13, 2020
(RNS) — Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is designed to fuel our divisions in the name of ‘law and order’ — all for Trump’s own benefit (his only real goal in life).
We can’t cancel ‘white Jesus,’ but we can keep telling our church’s story
By Paul Robinson — June 29, 2020
(RNS) — Today the Evangelical Covenant Church that commissioned Warner Sallman's portrait of Christ is creating art that reflects the beauty and diversity of God’s Kingdom.
Jacqui Lewis fills the virtual house to talk about anti-racism
By Simran Jeet Singh — June 22, 2020
(RNS) — The Rev. Jacqui Lewis, the first woman to serve as a senior minister at New York's historic Middle Collegiate Church, has shown how to use diversity to expand the size and reach of her congregation.
Black Catholics: Words not enough as church decries racism
By David Crary — June 22, 2020
NEW YORK (AP) — As protests against racism and police brutality continue nationwide, there are rising calls for huge new investment in Catholic schools serving Black communities.
Why we can’t go back to America before George Floyd died
By Jim Wallis — June 19, 2020
(RNS) — White people now see they must stop and learn the meaning and consequences of 401 years of racism and slavery.
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