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September 2014

September 03, 2014
September 02, 2014
We are living in insane times. Like purveyors of a bad Orwellian joke, right-wing politicians...
September 02, 2014
Dr. Jasmin Sculark takes a holistic approach to ministry, knowing that as the recently appointed...
September 02, 2014
ALMOST midway through Sam Harris’s new book, “Waking Up,” he paints a scene that will...
September 02, 2014
I am organized.I have to-do lists, stop-doing lists, someday lists, and checklists galore. When it’s...
September 02, 2014
By Alice Faye DuncanSpecial to R3I am a Memphian who grew up in the African...
September 01, 2014
by Andre E. JohnsonR3 Editor*Read part 1 here. Read Part 2 here. Read Part 3 here. Read Part...

August 2014

August 29, 2014
When Rev. Traci Blackmon picked me up from St. Louis International Airport last week, she...
August 29, 2014
Ancestors, smancestors. Obviously, it doesn’t matter to some that previous generations faced death for the...
August 29, 2014
People are already calling for rest in Ferguson. People are demanding calm and peace. Yet,...
August 27, 2014
On November 2, 2013, Theodore Wafer shot and killed Renisha McBride as she sought assistance...
August 27, 2014
by Earle FisherR3 ContributorI’ve spent the last several months trying to drive home to point...
August 27, 2014
The shooting of Michael Brown, the subsequent protests, and the police response in Ferguson, Missouri...
August 26, 2014
Racial politics in the U.S. is beholden to the space of black death. On Monday,...
August 26, 2014
It was too much to resist: the media lure of prominent clergy members like the...
August 26, 2014
By the Reverend Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, IIDirector, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Office of Public WitnessThe...
August 25, 2014
August 25, 2014
Every once and a while Jesus shows up in strange places. The first time I...
August 25, 2014
The best way into our subject is through a look at ancient mythology. Consider, for...
August 24, 2014
In 1894, black racial justice activist Ida B. Wells sounded the alarm on racial injustice,...
August 24, 2014
This post is mostly for other white Christians.It’s not about what we should all be doing today in...
August 24, 2014
Racism and state-sponsored violence nullify another sun-kissed life in America. Innards, as the Black Youth Project...
August 21, 2014
by Edward BlumR3 Contributor Follow Edward J. Blum on Twitter: @edwardjblum Fifty-one years ago, dynamite rocked Sixteenth...
August 21, 2014
The Greater St. Mark Church was raided today as St. Louis County Police thought that protesters were...
August 21, 2014
by Peter GathjeR3 ContributorFollow Peter on Twitter @petegathMost of our guests at Manna House stay...
August 21, 2014
I was profoundly disturbed when I saw the chilling images initially coming out of Ferguson,...
August 21, 2014
This summer I had the pleasure of working with Professors Kurtis Schaeffer and Charles Mathewes...
August 21, 2014
While discussing the news of the murder of journalist James Foley at the hands of...
August 20, 2014
by Andre E. JohnsonR3 EditorFollow Andre on Twitter @aejohnsonphdI had already completed the syllabus. The...
August 20, 2014
It was July 19, 2013, and we were leaving New York City for a spiritual...
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