“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.
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“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.
What We Love About the Black Church: Can We Get a Witness?
Judson Press, the publishing arm of the American Baptist Churches USA, which has a substantial African-American membership, released a new book in May 2010 called What We Love About the Black Church: Can We Get a Witness? The volume is a collection of essays on best practices in the African-American churches. It is edited by two white […]
“Call and Response on the State of the Black Church”
Read an April 16, 2010, column on the controversy in The New York Times by Samuel G. Freedman, titled “Call and Response on the State of the Black Church.”
“Santorum defends backer after contraception remarks”
Read a Feb. 17, 2012, CBS News story in which Rick Santorum discusses his views on birth control.
“Santorum clarifies birth control stance”
Read a Feb. 17, 2012, post on CNN’s Political Ticker blog about former GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum seeking to distinguish between his personal views and his public policy positions on birth control.
Kristin E. Heyer
Kristin E. Heyer is an associate professor in the religious studies department at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, Calif. She co-edited Catholics and Politics: The Dynamic Tension Between Faith & Power.
David Gutterman
David Gutterman is an associate professor of politics at Willamette University in Salem, Ore., where he teaches a course on religion and politics. Gutterman co-edited the book Religion, Politics and American Identity: New Directions, New Controversies.