Q&A with Kenyatta Gilbert, author of “A Pursued Justice: Black Preaching from the Great Migration to Civil Rights.”
My summer vacation: A lesson in discrimination and hope
Israel is supposed to provide equal treatment to its citizens both Palestinian and Jewish, as it calls itself a “democratic” country. However, I did not notice anybody else except me treated in this way.
Neighbor churches, split on race lines, work to heal divide
About 170 years ago, they were one congregation, albeit a church of masters and slaves. Then the fight over abolition and slavery began and the churches separated by race.
French court suspends burkini ban
A top French court on Aug. 26 suspended a ban on full-body burkini swimsuits that has angered Muslims, feminists and civil liberties campaigners.
Atheists’ lawsuit is financial setback for National Baptist Convention
An atheist group’s lawsuit has halted plans to provide $65,000 in Kansas City taxpayer dollars for September’s National Baptist Convention in Kansas City.
The popular Bonhoeffer quote that isn’t in Bonhoeffer’s works
This may come as a shock to countless Twitter and Facebook users who have posted a picture of Bonhoeffer with that quote attributed to him.
Is the ‘fear of missing out’ actually causing us to miss out?
We know that social media’s virtual reality threatens actual reality: eating away at the social ligaments of human bonding; offering more information and less perspective; fast-tracking rumor, gossip and fear-mongering.
How God as Trinity dissolves racism
The widespread Christian failure to understand and experience God as Trinity has provided a breeding ground for both implicit and explicit racism.
Top of the church shopper’s list: Strong preaching
Top-notch preaching most attracts people looking for a new place to pray. That’s the conclusion of a new Pew Research Center study which asked 5,000 people about their search for a new church or other house of worship.