Race – Page 2

About Comparing the Movement for Marriage Equality to the Civil Rights Movement, Part I

Posted on May 28, 2014May 27, 2014 by Jared Hillary Ruark

Kate Abbey-Lambertz at the Huffington Post reports on an amicus brief filed by 110 conservative black pastors from Michigan. The brief is meant to oppose recent developments towards marriage equality ... Read More

Streams Run Uphill

Posted on March 19, 2014March 19, 2014 by Adam Hollowell

In an excellent new book, Streams Run Uphill: Conversations with Young Clergywomen of Color, Ruth-Aimée Belonni-Rosario writes about the promises and pitfalls of colonialism in her own spiritual jour... Read More

Am I Trayvon? Zimmerman? Both?

Posted on July 18, 2013July 18, 2013 by Simran Jeet Singh

Originally Published on The Huffington Post As I strolled outside my Manhattan apartment this morning, reflecting on the Trayvon Martin decision, I had one of those moments that would shatter any poss... Read More

Sweet(?) Home Alabama – Sin, The Voting Rights Act, and Being from Shelby County

Posted on July 3, 2013July 2, 2013 by Michael Woolf

In the wake of the celebration of the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down DOMA, it can be easy to forget what happened one day earlier – the nullification of the Voting Rights Act, which has p... Read More

The Veil of the American Church

Posted on June 5, 2013June 4, 2013 by Andrew Schwartz

W.E.B Du Bois writes in The Souls of Black Folk, “So woefully unorganized is sociological knowledge that the meaning of progress, the meaning of ‘swift’ and ‘slow’ in human doing, and the li... Read More

The Ballot as Daily Bread: Voting No on Voter ID

Posted on November 5, 2012November 4, 2012 by Andrew Twiton

Every Sunday, right before we receive Holy Communion, I pray the Lord’s Prayer with my church. In general, I think it’s hard to pray in a humble and honest way during an antagonisti... Read More

“I Don’t See Race.”

Posted on September 10, 2012September 9, 2012 by Phillipe Copeland

Article first published as “I Don’t See Race” on Blogcritics. Once upon a time there was a man on a quest to solve the world’s problems. He heard that there was a person who co... Read More

What is the Face of Racism?

Posted on August 20, 2012August 18, 2012 by Phillipe Copeland

“White supremacy is the greatest danger we as Americans face as a source of domestic terrorism, and one of the least recognized,” writes Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite at the Washington Post&... Read More

Faith, Race, and Terror

Posted on August 14, 2012August 13, 2012 by Phillipe Copeland

Article first published as Faith, Race, and Terror on Blogcritics. It’s mourning in America again. Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote that the blood of the innocent cries forever. We join our cries wi... Read More

Faith and Race: A Dialogue Worth Having

Posted on May 9, 2012May 7, 2012 by Phillipe Copeland

Article first published in the Newsletter of the Parliament of the World’s Religions According to the Abrahamic traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Baha’i Faith, the u... Read More