Essay: America’s lack of faith in our collective power is a bigger problem than Trump
ANDRE HENRY, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says Americans’ loss of a democratic imagination is bigger than a loss in the ballot box…
Essay: The US Supreme Court’s colourblindness
US pastor and academic CHERYL TOWNSEND GILKES says it’s a different colourblindness than the one envisioned in Martin Luther King, Jr’s, ‘Dream’ speech….
Texas faith leaders condemn new election bills as Jim Crow dressed up in a “tuxedo”
RNS Faith leaders in Texas condemned a pair of controversial election bills Wednesday working their way through the state Legislature, accusing lawmakers of trying to “dress up Jim and Jane Crow in a tuxedo”. An array of clergy and other religious leaders assembled outside the Capitol in Austin to express opposition to the bills, known […]
ESSAY: LEARNING RESISTANCE AND COURAGE FROM IDA B WELLS
In an article adapted from her latest book, CATHERINE MEEKS looks at the legacy of US anti-lynching activist and journalist Ida B Wells…
ESSAY: HOW A NATIONAL EMERGENCY ORDER IN THE US ENDANGERS THE “OTHER”
US rabbi JONATHAN PERLMAN and pastor ERIC SC MANNING express their concern about US President Donald Trump’s recent declaration of a national emergency on the country’s southern border…