DISTANT CHURCHES AND THE ISOLATED POOR: LESSONS FROM KATRINA, TEN YEARS LATER

Ten years after Katrina, the poor continue to struggle in New Orleans, and in urban contexts across the U.S., and they deserve no less urgent a response from churches and other sectors than that which was mobilized ten years ago in the wake of Katrina. The storms are gathering force—can our churches, and our nation, mobilize accordingly?

PUBLIC LIFE

church, Katrina, Poverty, R. Drew Smith

September 7, 2014

Black Urban Males and the Diminishing Public ideal

By R. Drew Smith, Ph.D., There is a scripture verse that has become a tag line for the thriving praise and prosperity emphasis within American Christianity: “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future”...

PUBLIC LIFE

Black Males, Ferguson, Mike Brown, R. Drew Smith, spotlight

January 26, 2013

Black Religion Scholarship’s Public Reach

“The time is ripe for our church people and theologians to forge new, mutually beneficial relationships with brothers and sisters abroad,” writes Wilmore thirty years after “Black Theology” began coursing its way through black religious thought and practice, and five years after the 1994 democratic transition in South Africa signaled the end of white minority rule on the African continent.

PUBLIC LIFE

black church, public life, R. Drew Smith, religion, Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference, spotlight, Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race

April 28, 2012

Scholars Gather in London to Discuss Religion and Race

The Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race (TRRR) is a community of discourse, focusing on religious responses to issues of race within contemporary western cultures.

PUBLIC LIFE

black church activism, God, liberation theology, London, R. Drew Smith, race and religion, spotlight

DISTANT CHURCHES AND THE ISOLATED POOR: LESSONS FROM KATRINA, TEN YEARS LATER

Black Urban Males and the Diminishing Public ideal

Dr. R. Drew Smith: Connecting Religious Leaders and Scholars throughout the African Diaspora

Black Religion Scholarship’s Public Reach

Stepping into the Breach: Some thoughts on Race, Religion and Multiculturalism in South Africa

Scholars Gather in London to Discuss Religion and Race

Black Church Activism and Contested Multiculturalism in Europe, North America and Africa

Black Church Activism and Contested Multiculturalism in Europe, North America, and South Africa

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