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November 2014

November 01, 2014
Methodist Theological School in Ohio has appointed Valerie Bridgeman associate professor of homiletics and Hebrew...

October 2014

October 28, 2014
African-descended communities across the globe are suffering effects of political, economic and social inequities whose...
October 28, 2014
The 2014 midterm elections are drawing near, and it appears that the Democrats may well...
October 26, 2014
Like the authors of Occupy Religion: Theology of the Multitude, I find in many of my...
October 26, 2014
Katherine Whitfield moved to Memphis, Tenn., in 2000 to attend Rhodes College. She graduated in...
October 26, 2014
By Katherine WhitfieldR3 Contributor“Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave-girl, and gave her...
October 25, 2014
In 1900, W. E. B. Du Bois declared that "the problem of the 20th century"...
October 25, 2014
The shooting in Ottawa on 22 October 2014 has uncovered the remarkable way that the...
October 24, 2014
We are living through a moment of tremendous change at the intersection of race, religion,...
October 22, 2014
In 1964, after he had won the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....
October 22, 2014
October 22, 2014
Rev. Nikia Smith Robert enthusiastically embraces her divine purpose to preach, teach and engage in...
October 22, 2014
By Yolanda Pierce, Ph.D.,from KineticsLive.comThe tears started while I was sitting in a Barnes and...
October 22, 2014
In July 1966, an informal group of clergy met to discuss events that had happened...
October 22, 2014
Do American military chaplains need to believe in God? Or, as the Navy Times once...
October 20, 2014
Danielle Dowd was back in front of the Ferguson police department Oct. 15, just two...
October 20, 2014
As we approach the sesquicentennial mark of the cessation of hostilities in the US Civil...
October 19, 2014
As I have read more writing on postmodernism I have begun to question many of...
October 18, 2014
In 2002, then-Berkeley (now-NYU) sociologist Michael Hout and I published apaper pointing out a new trend...
October 18, 2014
Rosemary Radford Ruether embodies the theological vocation well lived. Her scope is awesome, her writing...
October 18, 2014
In a previous blog I suggested that The idea that the human relationship to religion...
October 18, 2014
Scholars have written a lot about the difficulties in the study of religion generally. Those...
October 17, 2014
In August 2014, a Ferguson, Missouri, policeman shot and killed an unarmed black teenager. Michael...
October 17, 2014
It amazes me that the small town of Ferguson, essentially unknown to most of the...
October 17, 2014
Midterm elections are all about turning out base constituencies. Over the last few decades, there...
October 16, 2014
by R .Drew Smith, PhD. First Posted on KineticsLiveWe are isolating persons infected and affected...
October 16, 2014
In Ferguson, MO, faith leaders led a Moral Monday civil disobedience action today. Rev. Dr....
October 16, 2014
Thousands of people from around the nation have traveled here under the banner #FergusonOctober to...
October 16, 2014
Sisters and brothers on the Ferguson police force,Grace and peace to you. On Monday I...
October 16, 2014
The events in Ferguson and Forney have made more visible to more people the divisions...
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