Rappers and pastors, spoken word poets and authors appealed to thousands of evangelicals gathered around the Washington Monument to recommit to prayer and hope at a time of intense racial and political polarization.
With its flying hospital, this group is saving the world from blindness
Vision impairment that’s easy to fix in rich countries can be life sentences in most of the world. These volunteer doctors aim to change that.
America’s problem is not racial tension — It’s racism
America does not have a problem with racial tension. Racial tension is simply the fever indicating the disease. America has a problem with racism.
Standing as a family
There comes a time when enough is enough. When there seems like nothing else you can do, just stand, and stand we did — as a family.
White Conservative Christian America not going down without a fight
A vortex of new stories on Wednesday concerning the upcoming GOP convention, platform, and Trump coronation, placed together with forthcoming works about the rapid racial and demographic remapping of American Christianity (and American unbelief, for that matter), suggests that, if…
AME Church: Climate change disproportionately hurts blacks
Of Americans living near coal plants, 39 percent are people of color, and black children are four times as likely as their white counterparts to die from asthma.
The lasting power of ‘We Shall Overcome’
People have been trying to shout down “We Shall Overcome” for more than seven decades, and like those who sing it, the song has endured.
Pilgrimages are back — with less Christianity
In the past decade, 30 pilgrimage routes in Britain have been created or rediscovered; holy places have seen a 14 per cent growth in visitor numbers since 2013.
How the Olympic Village will feed favelas
Uneaten food is a global crisis; across Brazil, 35 percent of produce is trashed even before it reaches the table, and more is lost afterwards.
The new tech evangelists
Facebook Live offers accessibility to houses of worship that once found the technology too cumbersome or expensive.
Is America willing to be freed from its demons?
Walter Wink said that in order to overcome the array of human and supra-human forces aligned to destroy life, you must name, unmask and engage them.
If Pokémon Go feels like a religion, that’s because it kind of is
What sounds like a sudden global religious conversion, is, of course, the launch of Pokémon Go, an augmented reality smartphone game that has restarted the popular culture phenomenon of Pokémon.