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Once the camps are built and the trains are running—once the machetes have been distributed and the hate radio is broadcasting—it’s too late to respond. A Thanksgiving report on the state of our (un)ethical response to genocide.

Forty years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act, veterans of the Civil Rights era still expected that they would not live to see an African American elected to the presidency. But iconic figures like C.T. Vivian supported Obama and believed that the arc was bending toward justice.

A professor of African-American religious history talks about teaching with a heavy heart, year after year, about the truths of racism. With the election of Barack Obama, this year will be different, but the journey of healing has only just begun.

Barack Obama tried to run a color-blind campaign, and he won. But don’t believe the hype: an Obama victory doesn’t mean an end to racism in our culture, or that we should blithely forget the history of racial injustice.

RD News Round-Up: November 17, 2008: New surveys on the faith vote; Rev. Moon’s plans for the UN; Jews to Mormons: lay off the dead; plus Jill Stanek, Tom Minnery and Joel Hunter

Many will draw hasty conclusions from a new breakthrough on the cancer front. The real breakthroughs have been telling us that what we—our genes and cells— experience, can affect our children and our children’s children.

Is President Obama destined to disappoint progressives? Our columnist channels theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, reminding us of the human potential for both good and evil, and offering a pragmatic approach…

Pastor Dan addresses the Religious Left with suggestions, words of caution, a plea for compromise and a more broadly-conceived coalition than any to date.

If we allow the progressive movement to be reactive without first building the shared values and beliefs that make such actions sustainable, then our house will turn out to have been built upon sand. And when the electoral rains come, we will be washed away…

Are the deaths of “our” people more important to us? What were two Brooklyn Jews doing in India anyway? Our columnist reflects on the selective sympathies of Westerners—of Jews in particular—upon hearing the news of the murder of an Orthodox rabbi and his wife during this Indian national tragedy.