“Tea Party Election Results: Conservative Movement Of 2010 Takes Pounding In 2012”
Read a Nov. 7, 2012, article from the Huffington Post about how the Tea Party fared in the 2012 election.
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“Tea Party Candidates Losing Steam in 2012”
Read a June 27, 2012, article from ABC News about how the Tea Party fared as the 2012 elections went on.
“Haley, Jindal and America’s new religious litmus test”
As Aseem Shukla, a doctor who is also on the board of the Hindu American Foundation, wrote at the On Faith blog for The Washington Post, that the Indian-American candidates for public office do not always embrace their Indian religious traditions.
“Record number of Indian-Americans seeking office”
There are currently at least eight Indian-Americans running for Congress or statewide office, which may be a record, according to this Associated Press report in June 2010.
“Is the Tea Party unbiblical?”
Read a July 22, 2010, Religion New Service story posted on the Washington Post site discussing whether or not the Tea Party is compatible with Christianity.
Understanding and Transforming the Black Church
The Crouch-Gregory book followed the publication of a similarly-themed book, Understanding and Transforming the Black Church, by Anthony Pinn, the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and professor of religious studies at Rice University in Houston. Pinn is also executive director of the Society for the Study of Black Religion, and he co-chairs the American Academy of […]
“The Black Church is Dead—Long Live the Black Church”
A March 2010 forum at ReligionDispatches featured responses from six historians, religious scholars and other experts on the black church, as well as a response from Glaude.
“Blacks, Mirroring Larger U.S. Trend, ‘Come Out’ As Nonbelievers”
Read a May 24, 2010 Religion News Service story, about African-American atheists, “Blacks, Mirroring Larger U.S. Trend, ‘Come Out’ As Nonbelievers.”
“Nonprofit Looks to Cultivate Next Generation of African-American Religious Leadership”
The Fund for Theological Education (FTE), described as “a nonprofit advocate for improving faculty diversity in theological schools and cultivating the next generation of leaders for the church, academy and society,” held a June 11-13, 2010 conference in Chicago on the future of African-American Religious leadership. Read the group’s press release.