
CA Sen. Kamala Harris To Make A Very Interesting Church Appearance…
You learn things reading church newsletters. Take, for example, this very interesting tidbit about First…
Read MoreYou learn things reading church newsletters. Take, for example, this very interesting tidbit about First…
Read MoreAmerican Christians must take on the difficult work of understanding how whiteness has been woven like a cancer into their Christianity.
Read MoreBishops launch ‘fortnight’ of prayer and p.r. as San Francisco’s LGBT Film Festival opens.
Read MoreIt’s time to for the leaders of the Black Church to ‘put away childish things’ and to engage in a real conversation about sexuality in their communities.
Read MoreThe prophetic tradition of black Christianity remains alive, if embattled. It is impossible to conceive of the civil rights movement without placing black Christianity at its center, for it empowered the rank and file who made the movement move. And when it moved, it was able to demolish the system of legal segregation. The history of black Christianity in America made that transformation possible, even as it frustrated some of the deeper-rooted aims of some activists who sought to address issues of income and wealth inequality as much as the formal legal structures of “civil rights.” That remains the prophetic task of the generation misleadingly labeled as “post-racial.”
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