“5 Things for Which the Pope Will Be Remembered”
ABC News posted five things for which it says the pope will be remembered.
Category: Faith leaders
“Who’s in the running for pope? 12 names to watch”
Religion News Service provided a a look at a dozen potential candidates to succeed the pope on Feb. 11, 2013.
“Reactions to the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI”
Religion News Service provided a roundup of reactions to Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation on Feb. 11, 2013.
“What happens next at the Vatican”
Religion News Service provided a breaking-news explanation of what happens next at the Vatican on Feb. 11, 2013.
“A Statement Rocks Rome, Then Sends Shockwaves Around the World”
Read the Feb. 11, 2013, New York Times story on Benedict’s announcement.
E. Roy Riley
Bishop E. Roy Riley of the New Jersey Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America testified about welfare reform July 19, 2006, before the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee. He expressed concern about persistent poverty and a growing gap between rich and poor in America.
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.”