https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to womanism en https://religiondispatches.org/2024/07/06/trumps-bibles-and-sneakers-campaigns-tell-old-story-about-role-race-christian In late June, national news outlets reported that former President Trump had received the largest donation of the 2024 election. Billionaire Tim Mellon’s $50 million contribution, arriving just a day after the former president’s hush-money trial, in which he was… Sat, 06 Jul 2024 04:12:08 EDT Dara Delgado 79dfc547-911d-446f-aacc-228765aa67f1 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/11/08/what-did-kyrie-say-was-so-wrong-when-black-antisemitism-meets-white-jewish-privilege So, let’s start with a joke. A Black nationalist female rabbi, a Black male womanist rabbi, and Black Jewish apostate walk into a bar… There’s been nonstop controversy since NBA star Kyrie Irving tweeted a link to a film, Hebrews… Tue, 08 Nov 2022 07:05:26 EST A. E. Brooks-Key d4a65fee-ce51-4675-9ad2-6212eca20619 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/08/02/weve-finally-begun-confront-white-christian-nationalism-what-about-its-source-text As the Select Committee on the January 6 th Insurrection is now investigating the terrorist attack on the United States Capitol, one theme that deserves closer inspection is white Christian nationalism . There’s no denying the Christian conviction of the… Mon, 02 Aug 2021 02:00:18 EDT Dianne M. Stewart 098490f7-fa6b-4fcb-aabf-99d9329c14e1 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/01/06/updated-my-work-confederate-monuments-leaves-christian-ethicist-distrustful-calls UPDATE 10:05 p.m. ET January 6: Hours after this essay was published, Trump supporters breached security and entered the Capitol, spurred on by Trump himself. Their goal was to interrupt Congress as they were counting Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory… Wed, 06 Jan 2021 11:31:15 EST Ryan Andrew Newson 496a3ac2-29c3-49d8-ad94-644f1bb35dae https://religiondispatches.org/2020/06/05/powerful-statement-black-presidents-and-deans-say-no-more-stolen-black-lives On Monday, I and a group of womanist Presidents and Deans, decided that we would not be silent as we witnessed the ongoing murders of and harm to Black people by police officers. We began to write a statement articulating… Fri, 05 Jun 2020 01:54:17 EDT Pamela R. Lightsey 0c800e83-25ad-4fa0-9f34-c74f383f3a68 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/07/06/youre-using-it-wrong-rachel-held-evans-returns-bible One critic was like, “Rachel Held Evans bases her Biblical interpretation on all the feels”… So I took a picture of my endnotes, which are lengthy, and sent them to him with the note, “All the feels, page 1,” “All the feels, page 2”… Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:16:10 EDT Eric C. Miller 0d2ea783-9e5a-4984-9c21-c0c5dad96e4c https://religiondispatches.org/2018/05/07/james-cones-death-comes-death-black-theology-0 With James Cone’s death, comes the death of Black theology. This statement is hyperbolic in that a variety of theologians—some trained by Cone and others not—will continue to write theological texts and teach black theology, and will do so in… Mon, 07 May 2018 11:38:15 EDT Anthony B. Pinn ebfbb308-1676-451c-a9b1-4ba32b7481c7 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/05/07/james-cones-death-comes-death-black-theology While the socio-political, economic, and cultural climate motivating the work has shifted—the fundamental and death-dealing disregard for black life has remained unaltered. Mon, 07 May 2018 02:45:10 EDT Anthony B. Pinn 843e554a-208d-47a2-aef8-5305c87063c3 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/07/07/book-diana-wonder-woman-theological-text What audiences learn by the end of the film is that evil cannot be located in a single demigod, villain or agent. Fri, 07 Jul 2017 12:36:35 EDT Yazmine Nichols e0908be0-ef3c-4895-8432-541f1efa1cef https://religiondispatches.org/2017/05/17/religion-front-tyranny-roundtable-timeliness-hulus-handmaids-tale Are we worse off than when “The Handmaid’s Tale” was first published? Wed, 17 May 2017 06:58:26 EDT Anita Little d0036e25-1192-4e04-853b-31171eb79e6b https://religiondispatches.org/2016/11/28/catholic-feminist-isnt-oxymoron-and-other-tales-beleaguered-tradition In her latest book, journalist Celia Wexler explores the conflicted feelings many Catholic women have towards their faith and the attempts to make peace with the institutions and traditions that fail them. Mon, 28 Nov 2016 03:34:38 EST Celia Wexler 8a819f4c-ee58-49c8-b2ea-831fca606273 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/10/14/bipolar-faith-autobiography-race-and-mental-illness A womanist theologian explores the underexamined intersection of faith, race and mental health. Fri, 14 Oct 2016 01:06:53 EDT Monica A. Coleman 1bea39de-65c2-4334-af9f-07bccac48c5d https://religiondispatches.org/2016/10/10/its-just-words-just-words-speech-ethics-time-trump When we talk in public, “what is the society we are trying to create?” Mon, 10 Oct 2016 03:47:22 EDT Brad R. Braxton 15aef9ab-5e02-49b2-9806-7a523c2f8946 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/09/30/be-christian-intellectual-and-black-response-vincent-lloyd Continuing the conversation on the role and reception of black Christian intellectuals in this country. Fri, 30 Sep 2016 11:00:37 EDT Joshua L. Lazard 6861ea8c-3f4c-40da-b57d-b643b881b68c https://religiondispatches.org/2016/05/10/ten-books-read-after-youve-watched-lemonade We are living in the end times—or at least, in the post-“Lemonade” era. On April 23, Beyoncé released an hour-long visual album that serves up a tapestry of the experiences of Black women, including their varied religious practices throughout the… Tue, 10 May 2016 12:09:45 EDT Nyasha Junior 5375f816-8509-4394-a50d-b7c988da15a1 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/05/03/black-women-and-sacred-lemonade-beyonce-takes-us-church I walked away after seeing Beyoncé’s hour-long visual album, “Lemonade,” with the profound sense that I had “been to church.” And this is no small claim for someone who has devoted her life and work to the academic study of… Tue, 03 May 2016 12:44:38 EDT Yolanda Pierce ace987a1-e798-4302-8799-54243f6c5b3b https://religiondispatches.org/2016/05/02/pornographys-dirty-little-secret-what-we-say-vs-what-we-do Last month, Utah officially declared that pornography is a public health hazard, approving a resolution that contradicts much of the current scientific research. Regardless of one’s political or moral concerns about pornography, public policy ought to rely on the most… Mon, 02 May 2016 11:25:26 EDT Shira Tarrant 153e2715-7254-4245-81a4-b1ae7a67c77a https://religiondispatches.org/2016/03/16/kendrick-lamars-hip-hop-jeremiad And it came to pass after the captivity of Israel and the desolation of Jerusalem that Jeremiah sat mourning and he lamented this lament . Kendrick Lamar’s Untitled Unmastered ( UU), surprise-released at the beginning of this month, paints an… Wed, 16 Mar 2016 07:46:55 EDT Josiah Daniels 0937fd5d-1eb3-4542-a509-eabf62e0f16b https://religiondispatches.org/2016/02/08/american-sin-why-pope-francis-mercy-not-our-mercy In The Name of God Is Mercy , Pope Francis’ new book, the pontiff does more riffing than writing. The book is based on a series of interviews he gave to Vatican journalist Andrea Tornielli, and it showcases his famous… Mon, 08 Feb 2016 01:45:49 EST Kaya Oakes bdb5664e-17be-4a85-bc83-a81316085eea https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/26/porn-workaround-how-christian-sexuality-websites-avoid-sin Last week, the evangelical-influenced Barna Group released findings from its new study, “ The Porn Phenomenon,” based on a survey commissioned by Josh McDowell Ministries. The study, which poses a wide range of questions about pornography use, is unique in… Tue, 26 Jan 2016 02:22:05 EST Kelsy Burke 30eaa020-50d2-40d4-ba0b-7d058f2d7afb https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/14/third-reconstruction-rev-william-barber-lifts-trumpet Chances are you have heard something about the Rev. William Barber II. He is the giant of a man (in more senses than one) who launched the Moral Mondays movement in North Carolina in 2013—a movement that has since spread… Thu, 14 Jan 2016 07:00:37 EST Peter Laarman 4b874d6a-3cd2-427f-b61d-eccd7d58730a https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/07/refusing-religion-claiming-future-roundtable-discussion-nones-are-alright What does it mean that a quarter of all Americans “describe their religion as ’ nothing in particular’ ”? In her newest book, The Nones Are Alright: A New Generation of Seekers, Believers and Those in Between, Kaya Oakes ventures deep… Thu, 07 Jan 2016 11:00:56 EST Peter Laarman 1fbe2a64-81da-47ae-98ea-225b4a6db6e8 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/05/biblical-perspective-recognizes-black-women What inspired you to write An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation? I used some of the work of feminist, Black feminist, and womanist writers when I was in graduate school, but I had never taken a course in feminist or… Tue, 05 Jan 2016 03:26:23 EST Nyasha Junior 82fab5c3-7b96-451d-b03d-d315b64f47f6 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/03/be-queer-gifted-and-black-conversation-theologian-pamela-lightsey “When we talk about Black Lives Matter, we’re talking about all black lives.” Thu, 03 Dec 2015 01:33:31 EST Nyasha Junior 358e9e2a-6d70-4fc1-b7be-b75e1b2ce1c3 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/06/02/why-james-h-cones-liberation-theology-matters-more-ever Or, in twitterspeak, #jamesconewasright Tue, 02 Jun 2015 07:01:16 EDT Daniel José Camacho 0e672865-c285-4b9f-a890-27c0a302aabd