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Religion Dispatches
How liberal and mainline Christian leaders are reacting to Trump’s election
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Religion Dispatches
Continuing the conversation on the role and reception of black Christian intellectuals in this country.
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Religion Dispatches
A Q&A with the Rev. Yolanda Pierce, director of DC’s new Center for the Study of African American Religion.
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Black Christian public intellectuals are a vanishing group.
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Religion Dispatches
“We preachers who have come of age in the 21st century stand on tall shoulders and drink from cisterns and wells we did not dig.”
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It was one of those moments last summer when it looked like the short-lived Trump train would be a train wreck. Asked about criticism he had received from former presidential candidate and POW hero…
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Every so often, a news story of the day opens up into something deeper, broader, something that transcends the moment it was forged in. So it was with Michael Joseph Garza, whom I originally wanted to…
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When scientists first mapped the human genome in 2000, public figures celebrated the milestone in the language of human unity. “In genetic terms, all human beings, regardless of race, are more than 99…
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I don’t like Beyoncé in the way that some people do—I am not a bee in the hive. I do, however, recognize greatness when I see it, and Beyoncé’s “Formation” is just that. Beyonce’s African and “Creole”…
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When I mention Moral Mondays to secular friends, few have heard of it. In faith-based circles, Rev. William Barber has inspired thousands, but, at least on the surface, he hasn’t ignited a national…
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