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.
How to wreck your faith: A theologian teaches ‘Outlaw Christianity’
An outlaw Christian seeks to live an authentic life of faith and integrity, and chooses to defy the unwritten laws governing suffering, grief and hope that our culture and our religious traditions have asked us to ingest.
Gen. Robert E. Lee is his namesake ancestor. On Sunday, he’ll preach about the evils of racism.
As a Christian pastor, on Sunday, this descendant of the Lees of Virginia will step into a pulpit in Raleigh, N.C., and say the names “Alton Sterling” and “Philando Castile.” Because enough is enough.