In the first full length book dedicated to examining Christians in Hip Hop, “You Gon’ Learn Today,” aims to offer a new ‘learning’ of Christians in Hip Hop. In the rap song titled “Learn Today,” emcee Bizzle asserts that the past perception of Christian rap as ‘whack’ or ‘soft’ is inaccurate. The rap’s lyrics are telling of the broad brush that has been used to characterize all Christian rappers, as well, the attempt by Christians in Hip Hop to redefine... Read more
by Travis Terrell Harris On June 12, 2016, at 2am Sunday morning, Omar Mateen walked into Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida and started shooting. When he finished 50 people were dead and 53 injured. Here at R3, we are collecting some reflections of this horrific massacre. If you would like to share, please email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter at @examinereligion and Facebook My heart is broken. Being at the vigil was the first time... Read more
by Ernest L. Gibson III On June 12, 2016, at 2am Sunday morning, Omar Mateen walked into Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida and started shooting. When he finished 50 people were dead and 53 injured. Here at R3, we are collecting some reflections of this horrific massacre. If you would like to share, please email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter at @examinereligion and Facebook I’ve spent 34 years teaching this tongue how to speak; teaching... Read more
by Rev. Hannah Adair Bonner On June 12, 2016, at 2am Sunday morning, Omar Mateen walked into Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida and started shooting. When he finished 50 people were dead and 53 injured. Here at R3, we are collecting some reflections of this horrific massacre. If you would like to share, please email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter at @examinereligion and Facebook As I see all these posts about prayers for Orlando, all... Read more
On June 12, 2016, at 2am Sunday morning, Omar Mateen walked into Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida and started shooting. When he finished 50 people were dead and 53 injured. Here at R3, we are collecting some reflections of this horrific massacre. If you would like to share, please email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter at @examinereligion and Facebook Today, I was unceremoniously told (again) that I am not a minister of the gospel because... Read more
by Matt Matthews On June 12, 2016, at 2am Sunday morning, Omar Mateen walked into Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida and started shooting. When he finished 50 people were dead and 53 injured. Here at R3, we are collecting some reflections of this horrific massacre. If you would like to share, please email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter at @examinereligion and Facebook On this day, remember that Jesus Christ, the Crucified One, is queer.* This... Read more
I recently started a bible study series at our church titled “Black Lives Matter and the Theology of a Social Movement.” It is a seven week study that examines the BLM movement through the lens of James Cone’s Black Theology. The goal of the class is to demonstrate how people of faith (particularly the Christian faith) can begin not only to better understand the movement, but also to see social movements as part of the faith walk. When we look... Read more
On May 20-21, 2016, the University of Memphis hosted “Memories of a Massacre: Memphis in 1866, a Symposium Exploring Slavery, Emancipation, and Reconstruction.” The culmination of a semester-long series of lectures, workshops, discussions, and book talks, this symposium featured historians and scholars from across the country, including Robert K. Sutton, retired Chief Historian of the National Park Service. Together, their presentations and the ensuing discussions pried open what has for 150-years been the carefully concealed history of Reconstruction, its legacies,... Read more
By Charles McKinney Ray Gavins began making a difference in my life exactly five years before I actually took a class from him. This was because my mentor at Morehouse, Marcellus Barksdale, studied under Ray when he was a graduate student at Duke. Ray helped shape Dr. B’s exploration of the freedom struggle in Monroe, North Carolina – the home of Robert Williams. Ray Gavins – a man who’d been the first black student in the department of history at... Read more
by Andre E. Johnson R3 Founder and Managing Editor Vincent W. Lloyd , Editor, Race and Political Theology. Stanford University Press, 2012. Pg 254 Cloth: $58.50, Paper: $20.66. At a meeting of the American Academy of Religion, political theologian Kwok Pui Lan presented at paper titled Race Matters in Political Theology. In the paper, she lamented how scholars have erased race in many of the discussions and writing about in within the discipline of political theology. While scholars and students... Read more
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