This edition of ReligionLink features experts on racial reconciliation, multi-ethnic churches and racism in sacred spaces.

(RNS) Many racially-oriented hate groups have ties to and roots in religion — Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

Jeannine Hill Fletcher is a professor of theology at Fordham University in New York City and author of The Sin of White Supremacy: Christianity, Racism and Religious Diversity in America.

Joseph Reiff is a professor of religion at Emory & Henry College in Emory, Va., and the author of Born of Conviction: White Methodists and Mississippi’s Closed Society, which examines how 28 white Methodist ministers in Mississippi battled school segregation and racial intolerance at the height of the white South’s resistance to the civil rights […]