“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.”
Category: Race & ethnicity
“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.”
“Cultural Conflicts, Playing Out on the Football Field”
Read a Jan. 27, 2012, “On Religion” column in The New York Times by Samuel G. Freedman about how cultural conflicts are reflected in sports.
“Alabama Immigration Law In Court: Obama Administration, Civil Rights Groups Face Off With State”
An Aug. 24, 2011, Associated Press story about efforts by the administration and civil rights and religious groups to fight the Alabama law. The Alabama law requires schools to check whether students are in the country legally, requires all businesses to check the legal status of workers and makes it a crime to knowingly give an […]
Boyce Watkins
Boyce Watkins is a scholar, author and leader in the African-American community. He writes frequently about money issues and the African-American community.
David J. Scheffer
David J. Scheffer is director of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University and a frequent commentator on human rights issues.
Ivana Noble
Ivana Noble is an associate professor of the Ecumenical Institute of ETF UK at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies. She has taught fundamental theology, systematic theology, and philosophy at The Institute of Ecumenical Studies, Protestant Theological Faculty and International Baptist Theological Seminary. Her main interests are the relationship between theology and culture, ecumenism and […]