white supremacy
SBC seminary votes to retain slaveholders’ names on buildings
By Adelle M. Banks — October 13, 2020
(RNS) — Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr. said: ‘Our task is to honor the saintly without condoning, hiding, or denying the sinful.’
Five years after shooting, Mother Emanuel uneasily adapts as pilgrimage site
By Matthew J. Cressler — June 17, 2020
(RNS) — Before the pandemic struck, worship often included people from across the U.S. and some foreign countries, come to pray at what they take to be a sacred site.
With Bibles and flash grenades, Trump walks the Christian nationalist walk
By Andrew Whitehead — June 2, 2020
(RNS) — It won’t be in spite of authoritarian bluster that many white Christians support Donald Trump. It will be because of it.
Al Mohler, Southern Baptist leader, says he was ‘stupid’ to defend slavery in 1998 CNN interview
By Jonathan Merritt — May 15, 2020
(RNS) — The Rev. Al Mohler, longtime Southern Baptist leader, repudiated past comments defending slavery, calling them ‘stupid,’ says he is ashamed of seminary title with a link to slaveholder.
How a rally for the right in Charlottesville emboldened a resurgent Religious Left
By Jack Jenkins — April 17, 2020
(RNS) — From a new book by RNS correspondent Jack Jenkins that chronicles a new era of progressive activism and the hard work of reforging connections and reckoning with past mistakes required to revive a movement.
White evangelicals’ attacks on James Cone are about power, not truth
By Andre Henry — January 9, 2020
(RNS) — A specter has been haunting white evangelicalism, in the shape of the late James Cone, a founder of black liberation theology.
Courtiers and kings, evangelicals, prophets and Trump
By John Fea — January 8, 2020
(RNS) — If evangelical leaders don't oppose the president's worst behavior with prophetic witness, they are complicit in his sins.
Behind Christianity Today’s editorial is a deeper crisis of America’s religion of whiteness
By J. Kameron Carter — December 24, 2019
(RNS) — The editorial is an attempt to rescue evangelical religion and, more deeply, the American project from Trump’s threat to the supposed civility of whiteness itself.
Evangelism and religious supremacy
By Simran Jeet Singh — December 19, 2019
(RNS) — Historically, the 'gift' of salvation has been weaponized time and time again to justify intervention and conquest.
US rabbis from three Jewish movements call for Stephen Miller’s firing
By Yonat Shimron — November 22, 2019
(RNS) — The statement follows a report from the Southern Poverty Law Center that revealed emails Miller sent to the conservative website Breitbart before he worked at the White House.
Why Trump — not Jesus — is at the heart of white Christian love for Kanye
By Andre Henry — October 30, 2019
(RNS) — White supremacy has always been on the lookout for black spokespeople. From the moment he donned that red hat, Kanye became their great black hope to endorse their white nationalist messiah.
New Light congregant: Last year’s shooting demands we turn prayers to action
By Beth Kissileff — October 25, 2019
(RNS) — I can’t bring back the 12 American Jews killed by anti-Semitic violence this year, but I can live my life with the urgency our tradition asks of us and encourage others as well to build the world, kindness first.
Black minister to his mostly white ELCA denomination: ‘We need to rethink church’
By Adelle M. Banks — August 28, 2019
(RNS) — The Rev. Lenny Duncan recently decided to challenge his denomination in a new book, titled 'Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the U.S.'
King’s dream and Emmett Till’s death capture warring soul of our nation
By Kelly Brown Douglas — August 28, 2019
(RNS) — August 28 is the anniversary of both Martin Luther King Jr.’s 'Dream' speech and the lynching of Emmett Till, eight years apart.
America needs a holiday of self-reflection
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 7, 2019
Americans can learn from the Jews: turn inward, and ask hard questions.
