Response: What Black Prophetic Politics?
A colleague suggests, in response to Andre Wills’ recent RD article, that being evangelical is no more antithetical to the prophetic strand of the black church than R&B is to gospel music…
Read MoreA colleague suggests, in response to Andre Wills’ recent RD article, that being evangelical is no more antithetical to the prophetic strand of the black church than R&B is to gospel music…
Read MoreDoes Obama’s coded evangelical language signal a shift from black prophetic politics to the evangelical politics of personal salvation?
Read MoreAfter a recent statement by Ayman al-Zawahiri on the role of women in Al-Qaeda, that supports single-dimensional notions of extremist Muslims, extremist women talk back…
Read MoreA growing theology of male headship and female submissiveness argues that men and women are equal under God, but have different leadership responsibilities as laid out by Scripture…
Read MoreWhen parents choose spiritual healing over medical care for their ailing children…
Read MoreFather/daughter dialogue on biblical literalism, Obama as Antichrist, and God as “She”…
Read MoreThe brand new branch of the Living Liberally tree seeks to build a grassroots religious left. Can local, leaderless cells build any coherent momentum?
Read MoreA leading evangelical takes on the “God is dead” crowd in the flagship journal of the conservative movement, but, our writer argues, neither theists nor atheists will win this argument until they stop misrepresenting each other and misinforming their readers…
Read MoreIn this video from The Big Think, RD editor Gary Laderman discusses American attitudes toward death, youth and religion.
Read MoreNew polls show that even conservatives are finally okay with gays and lesbians in the military. But what about not having any war at all? What does tradition say about that?
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