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March 2014

March 20, 2014
Many people know that the New Testament refers to Jesus as a “friend of sinners,”...
March 20, 2014
For the past twenty years the Christian right have been labeled the ‘backbone’ and ‘base’...
March 20, 2014
As conservatives grapple with the reality of gay marriage and the Supreme Court weighs whether...
March 20, 2014
Any halfway decent theologian will tell you that God is decidedly not an old man...
March 19, 2014
by Peter GathjeR3 Contributor*This first appeared in the Radical Hospitality BlogThe morning had started cold,...
March 19, 2014
This week, Pew Research Center published the results of a survey conducted among 40,080 people in 40...
March 19, 2014
As I watched the first episode of the new Cosmos series March 9, I wondered a number...
March 19, 2014
It's been called the greatest story ever told, so it's not surprising Hollywood has turned...
March 18, 2014
If you are preparing to do [urban ministry] and you’ve never had a non-white mentor,...
March 18, 2014
Verdell Anthony Wright seeks to reach others with God’s liberating message in groundbreaking and innovative...
March 17, 2014
“It is time for the truth to be told and for people to realize the...
March 17, 2014
The Rev. Samuel Cruz went into a meeting at his Sunset Park church last month...
March 15, 2014
Atheism is intellectually fashionable. In the past month, The New York Timeshas run several stories about lack of faith...
March 14, 2014
Christians miss insight into divine breadth without its female expression and distort perspective when male...
March 14, 2014
I have been doing a lot of thinking about gendered imagery and language for God...
March 12, 2014
Are the Gods Afraid of Black Sexuality? Religion and the Burdens of Black Sexual PoliticsColumbia...
March 12, 2014
In Hadassah: One Night With the King, a popular 2004 novelization of the Book of Esther,...
March 12, 2014
To begin with, religions - Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and so on - are growing...
March 12, 2014
Neil deGrasse Tyson has been called many things. Groundbreaking astronomer. Dynamic communicator. Sexiest astrophysicist alive.But what...
March 11, 2014
In his now classic work, God: A Biography, Ancient Near Eastern scholar Jack Miles offers a...
March 11, 2014
“Jesus Feminist: Exploring God’s Radical Notion that Women are People, Too.”My initial reaction to that...
March 10, 2014
By Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-ColasR3 ContributorAs an educator, one of my greatest joys is working with full...
March 10, 2014
by Peter GathjeR3 Contributor*First posted at the Radical Hospitality BlogI was going to write today about...
March 10, 2014
Having started his preaching ministry in the 1970s in the Church of God in Christ,...
March 09, 2014
In celebration of Women's History Month, we here at R3 celebrate our women contributors. Throughout...
March 09, 2014
Having failed in their efforts to stem the legalization of same-sex marriages, leaders of the...
March 08, 2014
I think religion should be taught in college. I’m not talking about “religious studies,” that...
March 07, 2014
I launched a conversation about depression a few months ago asking this question: What if it’s...
March 07, 2014
In 2007, former Morehouse College President Robert Michael Franklin wrote that"one of the challenges ahead...
March 05, 2014
Without a doubt, it is a new day for spirituality in our world. In the...
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