“A Statement Rocks Rome, Then Sends Shockwaves Around the World”
Read the Feb. 11, 2013, New York Times story on Benedict’s announcement.
Category: Faith leaders
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.”
“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.”
“Tebow, Manning and Pat Robertson”
The Rev. Pat Robertson said on The 700 Club show that because the Denver Broncos signed star QB Peyton Manning to supplant Tebow, it would “serve them right” if Manning were injured. Read about it in a March 23, 2012, article from the New York Times.