After pondering about the relative silence of White Christians in the latest spat of high-profile police killings of black Americans, the Rev. Dr. André E. Johnson took to Twitter and began the hashtag #WhiteChurchQuiet. In the weeks and months to follow, a conversation about racism and white theology was sparked. Dr. Johnson appeared on Theology Live hosted by Rev. Broderick Greer. Listen in as Dr. Johnson offers a detailed account of this powerful hashtag. Read more
As many of our readers know, R3 has a book series with Lexington Books, a division of the Roman and Littlefield Press, titled simply, the Rhetoric, Race and Religion Book Series. The series provides space for emerging, junior or senior scholars engaging in research that studies rhetoric from a race or religion perspective. This includes studies contributing to our understanding of how rhetoric helps shape race and/or religion and how race and/or religion shapes rhetoric. In this series, scholars seek... Read more
by Deven Lyle Outside of Planned Parenthood’s Greater Memphis area location, members of the Say Her Name movement as well as The Memphis Feminist Collective and The Official Memphis Chapter of Black Lives Matter held a candlelight vigil for the women who’ve lost their lives at the hands of police brutality. As soon as the event popped up in my Facebook feed, I felt compelled to attend. Not only as a longtime pro-choice advocate and Planned Parenthood supporter, but as... Read more
by Ebony Adedayo On Wednesday, I awoke to the news that Bethel University’s St. Paul, Minnesota campus – the school I attended for Seminary – experienced a racist incident. A rock that had been recently painted in solidarity with Black Lives Matter was now painted over in white paint with the message “BLM = Racist, Blue Lives Matter.” As I scrolled through my facebook feed, searching for clarity about the event, I became angry but I wasn’t necessarily surprised.... Read more
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When I started #WhiteChurchQuiet, I had no idea that so many would not only follow on Twitter the first night of our tweet chat, but also report and write about the hashtag. I have been fielding calls and responding to emails every since I started tweeting the hashtag on Wednesday evening, September 21, 2016. I am indeed grateful for all of the support. Below is a list of stories that focus of #WhiteChurchQuiet. If you know of others or would... Read more
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by Erin Daza Sigler For those of you who consider yourself patriotic, what does it truly mean to be “proud to be an American” in the “land of the free and home of the brave” with “Liberty and Justice for all”? Most recently I have seen people all over my feed outraged that our flag was disrespected because someone chose to exercise their 1st amendment rights during the national Anthem. My question is what greater dishonor to our country... Read more
by. Rev. T. Renee Crutcher Let me be the first to say that I applaud BLM, The Dream Defenders and any other organization doing Movement work! What I will not do is dismiss the intergenerational necessity of this work. Movement work is messy and at least organizations today have a backdrop to pull from. We all have skin in this game so we all need to fight from the places we find ourselves! I’ll be damn if somebody tells the... Read more
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