Obama, Jamal Bryant and the Politics of Selective Outrage

Social media networks have been ablaze this week following a recent announcement by President Obama. Black clergy who have been in a prophetic slumber since the election of the President have begin to speak out.

FAITH, NEWS & VIEWS

Barack Obama, black church, Jamal Bryant, Jamye Wooten, Politics, Same Sex Marriage, spotlight

May 3, 2012

Rev. Dr. Lester McCorn Speaks with Empowering Voices

The Reverend Lester A. McCorn is the Pastor of the Pennsylvania Avenue AME Zion Church, Baltimore, Maryland. He is also the National Director of Young Adult Ministries of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.

VIDEOS

Empowering Voices, lester mccorn, Pennsylvania Ave Ame Zion, spotlight

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

April 8, 2012

Riva Tims: ‘When It All Falls Apart’

Riva shares the betrayal she experienced after her husband committed adultery and the church subsequently shunned her.

CHURCH

Riva Tims, spotlight, Zachary Tims

April 8, 2012

Easter Sunrise and the Risen Inmate

Easter brims with the fullness of incarceration and its implications. It celebrates the vindication of the life of a man who did the hardest of time in the shortest of time. It recognizes that the One whose life we celebrate understood the pain of incarceration. Easter brings to judgment our fear of the inmate, our stigmatization of the prisoner, our shunning of those who return for a second chance-or a third chance, or a fourth chance…Simon Johnson elicited a response from the man destined for incarceration of seven times seventy.

FAITH

prison, spotlight

Should black churches use social media differently? Part 3

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Scholars Gather in London to Discuss Religion and Race

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Easter Sunrise and the Risen Inmate

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