Robert E. Lee
Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue melted down
By Jack Jenkins and Adelle M. Banks — October 26, 2023
(RNS) — ‘It’s taking that culture of death and repurposing it for the sake of life, telling this very long story of resistance to that white supremacist culture,’ said the Rev. Isaac Collins, a Methodist minister who attended the melting.
Idaho church window once depicting Robert E. Lee now honors Black female bishop
By Adelle M. Banks — December 22, 2021
(RNS) — ‘We recognize this section of our window is more than a benign historical marker,’ the United Methodist church’s leaders said in 2020.
Removal of Robert E. Lee leaves Arthur Ashe as Richmond’s remaining witness
By Robert P. Jones — September 8, 2021
(RNS) — A statue of the tennis great has outlasted the Confederate generals on Monument Avenue.
Don’t believe in systemic racism? Let’s talk about the sexual revolution.
By Karen Swallow Prior — July 12, 2021
(RNS) — One need not embrace critical race theory to recognize that systemic racism exists.
New report disputes North Carolina pastor Rob Lee’s ties to Robert E. Lee
By Jack Jenkins — May 14, 2021
(RNS) — Lee 'vehemently disputes' the Post's claims in a statement to Religion News Service.
What did church teach white students posing with guns in front of Emmett Till marker?
By Jemar Tisby — August 2, 2019
(RNS) — What if those young men had been deeply educated by their church about race and racism?
Our church was named for Robert E. Lee — here is how we changed it
By Doug Cumming — January 10, 2018
(RNS) — It has been, under the surface, a re-litigating of Lee’s terms of surrender at Appomattox. (Commentary)
Washington National Cathedral to remove windows honoring Confederate generals
By Adelle M. Banks — September 6, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Officials said their decision-making process concerning the windows sped up after the violence in Charlottesville, Va., last month.
National Cathedral faces calls to remove windows with Confederate generals
By Adelle M. Banks — October 27, 2016
WASHINGTON (RNS) The windows were added in 1953 with the support of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Confederate flag images quietly removed from National Cathedral
By Adelle M. Banks — September 28, 2016
WASHINGTON (RNS) Cathedral officials decided 'to just do it and get it done and move on to the next phase,’ a spokesman said.
How Southern delusions lie at the heart of the Charleston killings
By guest — June 8, 2016
(RNS) Hypnotized by the lost cause of the Civil War, those under its spell could not awaken without the shock of wanton cruelty. The murders at Emanuel AME Church provided that shock
National Cathedral to remove Confederate flag images
By Adelle M. Banks — June 8, 2016
WASHINGTON (RNS) Cathedral officials acknowledged that there are intense feelings about the best way to handle the controversial windows.
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