Jesuits pledge $US100 million for descendants of people their order enslaved
Washington DC, USRNS The Society of Jesus has announced plans to raise $US100 million for the descendants of enslaved people it once claimed to own, making the Roman Catholic order’s initiative one of the largest financial efforts by any group to try to atone for the institution of slavery and address racial injustice in the […]
Essay: Reconciliation needs truth
Sojourners founder JIM WALLIS, writing in the US context, says it’s time for time for an American version of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission…
Sculpture honours first Black president of an American college
Rutland, Vermont, USAP The first Black president of an American college is being honoured with a sculpture installed in the Vermont city where he was born in 1826. The larger-than-life marble bust of Martin Henry Freeman, a scholar, sits on a stack of books in a downtown square as part of the Rutland Sculpture Trail. […]
SBC seminary president: Recent race statement not about ‘preserving whiteness’
RNS The president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has expressed “lament” for “unintentionally” hurting African American members of his denomination with a recent joint statement on racism by all six Southern Baptist seminary presidents. But Adam Greenway defended the Council of Seminary Presidents’ determination about critical race theory and intersectionality, which address systemic racism and […]
Southern Baptist leaders to weigh in as turmoil over race theory grows
RNS New Orleans pastor Fred Luter, the only Black person to have served as president of the predominantly white Southern Baptist Convention, has added his name to a statement on justice and repentance released Friday. The Justice, Repentance, and the SBC statement comes as Black Baptists and others continue to object to the rejection of “critical race theory”, […]
Corporate America’s year of name changes and racial reckoning
Thomson Reuters Foundation American baseball team, The Cleveland Indians, announced last week it would change its name after criticism from fans for using a moniker many deem racist. The club joins several brands this year that have dropped racially-insensitive names – some centuries-old – following mass protests sparked by the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black […]
In the US, three church coalitions in the Deep South partner to urge racial reconciliation — and justice
RNS Leaders of multiracial coalitions of churches in three Southern cities have confessed to being too “comfortable” and committed anew to “work for justice to right past wrongs” and seek racial unity. “As a group of racially, ethnically, and politically diverse church leaders in the Deep South areas of Charleston, South Carolina, Montgomery, Alabama, and […]
Sight-Seeing: Why Jesus would support Black Lives Matter
NILS VON KALM on why he believes Christians should supports calls for racial justice…
Essay: The 2020 election is a moment of truth for white Christianity
JIM WALLIS, founder of Sojourners, says the upcoming US presidential election represents a crossroads for Christian voters…
‘Scholar strike’ for racial injustice includes US divinity school professors
RNS A religious studies professor at the University of Pennsylvania said thousands of faculty are supporting a “scholar strike” during which they are focusing on racial injustice in or out of their classrooms this week. “I would be down as a professor to follow the NBA and Strike for a few days to protest police […]