The Lost Cause myth is the original Big Lie, building on cultural, historical and religious elements of culture to try to create (or recreate) a world where white men reign supreme and some version of America is Great Again. One…
Politics, faith and mission: A conversation with Jemar Tisby
Jemar Tisby is one of America’s most important prophetic voices, a historian who teaches us how the American church has failed on issues of race and justice, who helps people who look like me wrestle with the truth. His books,…
Politics, faith and mission: A talk with Tim Alberta on his book and faith journey
You may have watched Tim Alberta recently on 60 Minutes, Meet the Press, Firing Line or a full house of cable news shows. His rigorously researched and painfully personal bestseller The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory is essential reading…
Third Baylor conference on racism will address ‘The Truth that Will Liberate Us All’
BNG columnist Greg Garrett will host the final of a three-year sequence of programs on confronting racism in the white church and seeking God’s justice. The Feb. 15-17 event at Baylor University’s Truett Seminary — “The Truth that Will Liberate…
‘What the hell is wrong with these people?’: An Advent message on Christian white nationalism and the end of America
You may have seen Atlantic Monthly writer Tim Alberta on air talking about why he wrote his new bestseller, The Kingdom, The Power, and the Glory, one of a trio of extraordinary books out this fall warning about white supremacy…
‘Both of these Jameses are speaking into 2023 in ways that are important and necessary’
Just as they did during the Civil Rights era, Black authors James Cone and James Baldwin are generating condemnation and inspiration in a nation increasingly divided over perspectives on race and justice, two panelists said during Baptist News Global’s latest…
Reminder: Join Saturday webinar with Greg Garrett and Anthony Reddie in dialogue about James Cone and James Baldwin
BNG’s next “Change-making Conversations” webinar — Saturday, Oct. 11 — will feature a dialogue with two leading scholars on the theological influences of James Cone and James Baldwin. Baylor University professor Greg Garrett, author of the new book The Gospel According…
BNG webinar will feature Greg Garrett and Anthony Reddie in dialogue about James Cone and James Baldwin
BNG’s next “Change-making Conversations” webinar will feature a dialogue with two leading scholars on the theological influences of James Cone and James Baldwin. Baylor University professor Greg Garrett, author of the new book The Gospel According to James Baldwin, will…
In the footsteps of James Baldwin: An excerpt from The Gospel According to James Baldwin
This week, I’m returning to the Shomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem to read letters from James Baldwin to literary, political and Civil Rights leaders. Then on Sunday, at the historic Church of the Incarnation on Madison…