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August 2013

August 18, 2013
Forget the forbidden fruit logo and the cult of Apple jokes. The legacy of Steve...
August 18, 2013
Sikivu Hutchinson is an author and activist who promotes a progressive—and aggressive—conception of humanism that...
August 18, 2013
In the burgeoning field of American history and Civil Religion, a potential place of growth...
August 18, 2013
Change has come to one of America’s largest Christian denominations. Last week the Evangelical Lutheran...
August 16, 2013
by Brian FoulksR3 Contributor*This first appeared in Syncopated HustleI am a Pan-Afrikanist with a Calvinist bent...
August 15, 2013
August 15, 2013
August 15, 2013
by Earle FisherR3 ContributorI’m usually up to speed on current events – especially those with...
August 15, 2013
For most gay Americans in the 20th century, the church was a place of pain....
August 14, 2013
The news media continue to stretch the boundaries of religion far beyond the usual parameters...
August 13, 2013
R3 Editor Dr. Andre E. Johnson will give a lecture on August 23, 2013 at...
August 12, 2013
For many years there’s been conflict over the consciousness Hip Hop and the commercialization of...
August 12, 2013
On July 16th, I fasted for Tisha b’Av, when Jews commemorate the destructions of the temples...
August 10, 2013
Paula Penn-Nabrit, is the president of PN&A;, Inc., a management, consulting, and training firm. She is...
August 10, 2013
The Trayvon Martin murder, the acquital of his killer, and the incarceration of Marissa Alexander are all messages...
August 10, 2013
The February 26, 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin sparked world wide interest. We collected many of the...
August 10, 2013
Currently I am teaching an undergraduate course, Introductions to Western Religions. This introductory course (along...
August 10, 2013
It is not uncommon these days for some people to regard religion as an unwanted...
August 08, 2013
Robert N. Bellah, a distinguished sociologist of religion who sought nothing less than to map...
August 08, 2013
Culture warriors, pseudo historians and opportunistic politicians have spent the last several decades peddling the...
August 07, 2013
We are pleased to announce the publication of Urban God Talk: Constructing a Hip Hop...
August 06, 2013
The last time I taught Introduction to the Study of Religion, I began the class...
August 05, 2013
I have had the joy of pastoring a multiethnic, economically diverse church in Chicago for...
August 05, 2013
Butler University’s Seminar on Religion and World Civilization presents “Freedom of Expression and Religion,” a...
August 05, 2013
Whenever I write sympathetically about religion, I get bombarded by tweets and notes from readers...
August 05, 2013
WHEN I LEARNED THAT I WAS A NIGGEREvery summer, my mom would sign us up...
August 05, 2013
by Joseph BostonR3 Contributor*Parts of this first appeared in the Joseph Boston blog**Read Part 1 here Ta-Nehisi Coates...
August 04, 2013
Black. Muslim. Lesbian. I get the same look now that I did eight years ago...
August 04, 2013
Recently I was at a clergy conference where I got to have conversations I’ve been...
August 04, 2013
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