The Interview: Jemar Tisby and Tyler Burns – Black Christians “cannot do this alone”
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, talks to Jemar Tisby and Tyler Burns – co-hosts of the Pass the Mic podcast about race relations and policing and what white people in the US need to do differently as the nation confronts the issues…
Racial prejudice a factor in rejection of black pastor acknowledges a Southern Baptist Church
RNS A prominent Southern Baptist church in south-west Florida has acknowledged that “racial prejudice” was a factor in its congregation’s decision not to appoint a black senior pastor candidate. Pastor Marcus Hayes, a leader of Biltmore Church in Asheville, North Carolina, received 81 per cent of the vote by “a record 3,818” in attendance last […]
THE INTERVIEW: JENNIFER BERRY HAWES, REPORTER-TURNED-AUTHOR
ADELLE M BANKS of Religion News Service, speaks with Jennifer Berry Hawes about her new book, Grace Will Lead Us Home, about the mass 2015 shooting at the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina…
ESSAY: US STATE OF MARYLAND HAS CREATED A TRUTH COMMISSION ON LYNCHINGS – CAN IT DELIVER?
In an article first published on The Conversation, KELEBOGILE ZVOBGO, of the University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, looks at the recent establishment of a commission to investigate the lynchings of at least 40 African Americans in the US state of Maryland…
SOUTHERN BAPTISTS: SEEKING UNITY, JD GREEAR ASSUMES PRESIDENCY
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, reports on new Southern Baptist president JD Greear’s plans to take the denomination back to its bedrock mission of preaching the Gospel…