Washington’s National Cathedral replaces windows honouring Confederacy with stained-glass homage to racial justice
Washington DC, USAP The landmark Washington National Cathedral unveiled new stained-glass windows on Saturday with a theme of racial justice, filling the space that had once held four windows honouring Confederate Generals Robert E Lee and Stonewall Jackson. The new windows depict a march for justice by African Americans, descendants of the very people who would have remained in slavery after the […]
Confederate memorials still divide Americans and religion is a big predictor – survey
United StatesRNS “The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” William Faulkner once famously quipped. The Mississippi writer had it right – at least when it comes to the Civil War, anyway. A war that split America as it was fought continues to do so in its memory. An 2020 image of the late […]
Essay: Removal of Robert E Lee leaves Arthur Ashe as Richmond’s remaining witness
ROBERT P JONES, CEO and founder of Public Religion Research Institute and the author of ‘White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity’, writes about how a statue of the tennis great has outlasted the Confederate generals on Monument Avenue…
Essay: If we’re rescinding Southern Baptist history, let’s undo our link to the Confederacy
In an article first published on Religion News Service, ALAN CROSS, Southern Baptist pastor and author, says that before turning back the clock on CRT Southern Baptists should rescind a May 1861 resolution aligning the SBC with the Confederacy…
In the US, faith groups celebrate Virginia’s death penalty ban
RNS Faith groups are celebrating Virginia’s decision to ban the death penalty, a move considered to be a victory for religious opposition to capital punishment. Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed the ban – the first of any Southern state and the 23rd overall – into law on Wednesday, declaring it “the moral thing to do.” […]
Essay: A former Confederate state just voted to abolish its death penalty. Here’s why that’s a big deal
SHANE CLAIBORNE, activist, author and co-director of Red Letter Christians, writes – in an article first published on Religion News Service – about why the US state of Virginia’s decision to abolish its death penalty is significant…
Essay: Rejecting symbols of hate is more than symbolic
Sojourners’ founder JIM WALLIS, in an article published on Religion News Service, argues that tearing down symbols – like statues celebrating Confederate leaders – isn’t enough but such moves can send clear messages about personal and national memory – and about future possibilities…
What should replace America’s Confederate statues?
Washington DC, USThomson Reuters Foundation As protesters fell monuments honouring slave owners, Confederates and disgraced white leaders of decades past, their downfall opens a debate over who should rise up to take their place. The United States had at least 780 Confederate monuments as of last year, according to a study by the Southern Poverty […]
With a pen stroke, Mississippi drops Confederate-themed flag
Jackson, Mississippi, USAP With a stroke of the Governor’s pen, Mississippi is retiring the last state flag in the US with the Confederate battle emblem – a symbol that’s widely condemned as racist. Republican Governor Tate Reeves signed the historic bill on Tuesday at the Governor’s Mansion, immediately removing official status for the 126-year-old banner that has been […]
In the US, Mississippi lawmakers vote to remove rebel emblem from flag
Jackson, Mississippi, USAP Mississippi will surrender the Confederate battle emblem from its state flag, more than a century after white supremacist legislators embedded it there a generation after the South lost the Civil War. Mississippi’s House and Senate voted in succession Sunday afternoon to retire the flag, with broad bipartisan support. Republican Governor Tate Reeves […]