On King’s holiday in the US, daughter calls for bold action over words
Atlanta, US AP America has honoured Martin Luther King, Jr, with a federal holiday for nearly four decades yet still hasn’t fully embraced and acted on the lessons from the slain civil rights leader, his youngest daughter said Monday. Rev Bernice King, who leads The King Center in Atlanta, said leaders – especially politicians – […]
Americans should “pay attention” to MLK’s legacy says Biden
Atlanta, US AP President Joe Biden made a historical pilgrimage Sunday to “America’s freedom church” to mark Martin Luther King, Jr’s, birthday, saying democracy was at a perilous moment and that the civil rights leader’s life and legacy “show us the way and we should pay attention.” As the first sitting president to deliver a Sunday […]
The Interview: US Senator and pastor Raphael Warnock
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, speaks with Senator (and pastor) Raphael Warnock as he releases his new book ‘A Way Out of No Way’…
On MLK Day, Biden says Americans must commit to King’s work
Atlanta, Georgia, USAP Americans must commit to the unfinished work of Martin Luther King, Jr, delivering jobs and justice and protecting “the sacred right to vote, a right from which all other rights flow,” President Joe Biden said Monday. Martin Luther King Day is a moment when a mirror is held up to America, the […]
Raphael Warnock honoured with Four Freedoms award in ‘extra step’ for racial justice
RNS Senator Raphael Warnock, who continues to pastor his historic Atlanta church while serving as Georgia’s first Black US senator, has received the Roosevelt Institute’s Freedom of Worship Award in a ceremony focused on racial justice. “I really felt that the strength of his pastoral voice was unique,” Anne Roosevelt, grand-daughter of President Franklin Delano […]
In Sunday sermon, Warnock, now US senator and pastor, said he heard ‘echoes of the spirit’ in swearings-in
RNS On the first Sunday after he became a Georgia senator, Rev Raphael Warnock described his election and the changing scene at the US Capitol – from insurrection to inauguration – as forms of divine messaging. “Can I just close this sermon by telling you that this very week, in the very place where we […]
In the US, Senate run-off winner Warnock blasts Capitol rioters in first sermon since election
New York City, USAP In his first sermon since being declared a winner in Georgia’s US Senate runoff election, Rev Raphael Warnock on Sunday addressed last week’s deadly Capitol Hill riot that all but overshadowed his historic victory. “Just as we were trying to put on our celebration shoes, the ugly side of our story, […]
“Black America’s church”: Senate race thrusts historic Atlanta church into spotlight
AARON MORRISON, of Associated Press, reports on the role Ebenezer Baptist Church has played – and continues to play – in US politics…
In US Senate runoff in Georgia, Republicans attack Warnock by tying him to controversial Chicago preacher
RNS As the fight for US Senate majority turns to the runoff election for Georgia’s two Senate seats, Republicans are ramping up attacks on one of the Democratic candidates, Rev Raphael Warnock, by sharing short clips of his sermons and tying him to the Rev Jeremiah Wright, the controversial Chicago pastor whose fiery rhetoric once […]
Essay: Barack Obama’s address at John Lewis’ funeral
Former US President BARACK OBAMA gave an inspiring tribute to those present at the funeral service for John Lewis at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on Thursday. Here’s a transcript, via AP, of what he said…