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’…
In the US, Warnock, Progressive National Baptists focus on voting rights during annual meeting
RNS Rev Raphael Warnock urged the Progressive National Baptist Convention to keep fighting to protect voting rights as the historically Black denomination held its annual meeting. “If we don’t check what they’re doing in Georgia, they’ll be able to nullify the votes and the voices of the people after they have already been cast,” Warnock, […]
Essay: We have the chance to redeem voting rights
Writing from the US, JIM WALLIS and BARBARA WILLIAMS-SKINNER say that complicity in the attacks on the vote could erode the number of Americans attracted to Christianity…
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, Martin Luther King, Jr, faith events continue in time of COVID-19 and Capitol chaos
RNS Commemorations of the life of Rev Martin Luther King, Jr, look different this year, with few in-person opportunities to preach, pray and volunteer amid the coronavirus pandemic. But many online gatherings that mark his birthday on Friday and the holiday in his honour on Monday will apply his messages of years ago to the […]
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 the US, faith takes the forefront as Georgia Senate runoffs heat up
Atlanta, Georgia/Washington DC, USAP Bishop Reginald Jackson stepped to the microphone at a drive-in rally outside a church in south-west Atlanta as his voice carried over a loudspeaker and the radio to people gathered in, around and on top of cars that filled the parking lot. “Let’s keep Georgia blue,” Jackson said. “Let’s elect Jon […]
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 […]
Mourners bid farewell to Rayshard Brooks at historic church
Atlanta, USAP Scores of mourners Tuesday paid their final respects to Rayshard Brooks at the Atlanta church where Rev Martin Luther King, Jr, used to preach, taking part in a funeral filled with historical echoes and a tragic sense that Black America has been through this all too many times before. “Rayshard Brooks is the […]