Watch excerpts from Religion & Ethics News Weekly interview with Yolanda Pierce, associate professor of African-American religion and literature at Princeton Theological Seminary...
For me, there is something right about this series because it provides a "teaching moment" that is long overdue. It is causing people to begin thinking critically about their practices of blind obedience to clergy figures and the distorted prosperity notions that inform clergy practices.
By Anne Blythe — ablythe@newsobserver.com RALEIGH — Minutes after a labor organizer from Rocky Mount was convicted of all charges related to his arrest in “Moral Monday” protests at the state legislature, the lawyer who represented the demonstrator asked the judge to recuse herself from other cases. Judge Joy Hamilton, a former Wake County District Court judge appointed...