On Nov. 10, 1898, two days after a contentious election, armed white supremacists stormed Wilmington. The mobs massacred dozens of African Americans — the true number will never be known — dumping their limp bodies in the winding Cape Fear River. More than 120 years
For many Black Americans, life in predominantly white and conservative regions can be isolating and lonely. Here is a look at multiple congregations in rural North Carolina.
It is time to break silence on systemic racism, said Preston Clegg, pastor of Second Baptist Church of Little Rock, Arkansas. Read full piece
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.
Pastors’ silence on racism and COVID-19 is driving Black parishioners away from their congregations. Read full piece
It takes cruelty and brute force for human subjugation to work. Read full piece
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.
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
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
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