Op-Ed: Rev. Wright and the Church-State Divide
Agonized analyses about the proper relation between church and state too often miss the point.
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RD10Q: What is Black Religion?
William D. Hart’s new book charts the black spiritual imagination through the journeys of Malcolm X, Julius Lester, and Jan Willis.
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This Year’s Best Books in African American Religion
New books by Anthea Butler, Willam Hart, Edward Blum, and Victor Anderson, among others, deepen the discussion of race and religion in the US.
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Rev. Ella Pearson Mitchell (1917-2008)
She was the dean of black women preachers, but she was also much more than that. Our lives are blessed by her memory.
Read MoreGLBT Activists and the Black Church: Can We Talk?
Misdirected finger-pointing and flat-footed social analysis has accompanied purposeful protests and mass social action in the response to the passage of Prop 8.
Read MoreSwiftboating Obama: The Brown Blob of Black Radicalism
Obama supporters should “chill out” in the face of this swiftboating via the conflation of Obama and Wright into an undifferentiated brown blob of black radicalism broadcast together in a twenty-four hour news cycle.
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