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There will be gracious space for introverts and extroverts, for friends and strangers, for people of every culture and theological leaning to listen, learn and grow in love for God and for one another.
FAITH. DIALOGUE. MOTION.
...using dialogue as a catalyst for social change.
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JOIN US FOR A WEEK OF RIGHTEOUS RESISTANCE (WORR) TO BEGIN SUNDAY, JULY 12 AND END SATURDAY, JULY 18
The Emanuel tragedy reminds the world that black revolutionary spaces—places committed to black beauty, intelligence, agency, creativity and freedom—have always been targets for racist violence.
As the African American presidents and deans of graduate theological education, we express our profound solidarity with the families and the faithful of Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
Yolanda Pierce, professor of African American religion and literature at Princeton Theological Seminary, reminds us that "the AME denomination was founded as a protest against racism" and "the black church was birthed as a sanctuary from white violence."
By Rev. Jennifer Bailey, AME Minister. Founder, Faith Matters Network. Millennial. Interfaith Leader. “In the streets they bind on sackcloth; on the housetops and in the squares everyone wails and melts in tears.” -Isaiah 15:3 (NRSV) “To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all...
By Yolanda Pierce, Ph.D., On Tuesday morning, Dave Ramsey, financial guru and evangelical Christian, provided the world with a definition he coined: “Activist: Bitterness that desperately needs a hobby.” It’s difficult to know to which activists Ramsey is referring, but his all-encompassing definition of the word gives me pause. Was not Jesus an activist?...
By Yolanda Pierce, Ph.D., The headlines concerning the latest numbers of the changing American religious landscape are sensationalist: apparently Christianity in America is facing a decline and America is “notably” less Christian. The idea of Christianity’s decline in America has been a recurrent theme for at least the past 50 years and the headlines...
Many thanks to Rev. Dr. Curtiss DeYoung, executive director of the Community Renewal Society and Duke Professor, Edgardo Colon-Emeric for invitation to reflect on the current outcry in Baltimore for racial and economic justice, and the ongoing #blacklivesmatter movements. The Summer Institute for Reconciliation is fostered by a particular methodology that brings together learning and...
