2nd Baptist Little Rock: Break Silence on Systemic Racism
It is time to break silence on systemic racism, said Preston Clegg, pastor of Second Baptist Church of Little Rock, Arkansas. Read full piece
Living With Redemption
Columnist Greg Mamula reflects on the encounter in Luke 8.26-39 between Jesus and a Garasene community that included a man overwhelmed by the constant presence of a Legion of demons.
The Church’s Black Exodus
Pastors’ silence on racism and COVID-19 is driving Black parishioners away from their congregations. Read full piece
The Shocking Necessity of Racist Violence
It takes cruelty and brute force for human subjugation to work. Read full piece
Biden Campaign Labels Racism as Religious Issue at Post-Debate Event
A day after the subject of racism played a primary role during the Cleveland presidential debate, it was declared a religious issue at a virtual event of the Joe Biden presidential campaign.
Until Black Women’s Lives Matter
I’m a white woman serving as a new pastor in a city that is literally pulsating with emotion over the unjust murder of a Black woman. Read full piece
After Speaking at N.C. Trump Rally, Baptist Pastor Yells ‘White Power’ from Truck
A Baptist pastor in North Carolina spoke at a Donald Trump for president rally, then from a truck yelled "white power" at a woman holding a "Black Lives Matter) sign. Read full piece
It’s Time to Break the Chains of Slaveholder Religion
Slaveholder religion is a treacherous theology that has transformed the church, as Frederick Douglass infamously stated, into a religion that is “corrupt … women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical.” Read full piece
Robert Graetz, White Minister Who Helped Organize Montgomery Bus Boycott, Dies at 92
Robert Graetz was the only white clergyman to support the boycott, and like other participants in the boycott, the reverend and his family persisted in the face of harassment, terrorism, and death threats that extended to their preschool children. Read full piece
Soil Collection Ceremony Remembers Springfield, Mo., Lynching Victims
Community and religious leaders in Springfield, Missouri, gathered downtown Saturday (Sept. 19) for a soil collection ceremony to honor three innocent Black men lynched there in 1906.