From Voting Rights Act to Today’s DOMA Repeal—LGBT Orgs Are Missing the Rainbow
Why the frail response by LGBT organizations to the Voting Rights Act repeal this week?
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Gay Black Church: An Interview with Bishop Yvette Flunder
African-American people were taught Christianity in the context of oppression. When people are disempowered, they are often empowered at someone else’s expense, whether it’s women or children or gay people. How do we get through that?
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Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism
Televangelism is not the sole domain of the white religious right. In his new book, Jonathan Walton looks at the cultural creativity and impact of black religious broadcasting.
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Updated with Response: The Black Church is Dead—Long Live the Black Church
What is the black church and what does it mean to say that the black church is dead? A provocative assertion and prophetic challenge by a prominent interpreter of African-American religion occasions a lively and varied set of responses. Updated with a response to those responses by Eddie Glaude, Jr., whose article sparked the discussion.
Read MoreLGBTQ Homeless Youth and the Black Church
After teaching them that the Black Church is their family, their home, our churches are failing our children in their time of need.
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The Black Church: Institution or Abstraction?
Rev. Wright’s assertions that it’s really the “Black Church” under attack help reduce the complexity of the religious life of black America to a soundbite…
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