<P>It has simmered throughout this campaign, and now race has exploded into the center of the media debate about the presidential race. It has simmered throughout this c ...

<P>The media frenzy over the remarks of Barack Obama's former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, raise critical challenge to the prophetic role and voice of the black church. ...

<P>The current media flap over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's former pastor, strikes me as nothing short of strange. The current media flap over the Rev. ...

<p><P>The 40th anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination - April 4, 1968 - will soon be upon us. As I remember Dr. King against the backdrop of this 2008 presidential elec ...

<p><P>In the past year, political expediency, xenophobia, and extremism defeated reason, compromise, and reconciliation in the immigration debate. The level of animosity directed towards the immigr ...

<P>This is part two of <a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/2008/02/election-2008-in-highdefinitio.html">my reflections concerning Election 2008</a> and Generation X, Y, ...

<P><A title=http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/2007/11/changes-down-under-by-jim-wall.html href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/2007/11/changes-down-under-by-jim-wall.html">Wh ...

<p><P>Black and white, we waited like I had waited in the mosh pit for Rage Against the Machine two weeks earlier. Yet the main feature on this day, a day that so many had been waiting for, working ...

<p><P>Without question the 2008 election is a historic time. Much has been said about the momentous nature of this presidential election. A woman, an African American, and a Latino were all trying ...

<P>Lately I keep wishing I was somebody else. Somebody different. Somebody better than me. </P> Lately I keep wishing I was somebody else. Somebody different. Some ...

<P>A pastor of a large metropolitan church once sought me out for some advice. A pastor of a large metropolitan church once sought me out for some advice. He was told by ...

<P><A href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/2008/02/the-new-conspirators-by-tom-si.html">Last week</A> I shared a snapshot of the new monastics. This week I will look at the ...

<P>Schools in the U.S. Schools in the U.S. have been resegregating themselves at a fast clip for the past 15 years or so, and the racial demographics of some districts a ...

<p><P>Recently, I had the opportunity to interview John Sayles about his movie <A href="http://honeydripper-movie.com/">Honeydripper</A>, a multilayered and complex account of ...

<p><P><A href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/2008/01/mlks-unfinished-revolution-by.html">Mary Nelson just posted on MLK's Riverside speech</A>, but I have some r ...

<P>Martin Luther King's <A href="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm">sermon at Riverside Church</A> linked the devastating Vietnam war to the s ...

Alexis Vaughan How God's Word empowers us to fight racism. Seven guards, one nurse, and a 14-year-old bo ...

Alexis Vaughan Thousands of protesters marched through Jena, Louisiana, on Sept. Thousands of protesters march ...

<P>A week before Thanksgiving, I spoke in Lake Tahoe for the clergy convocation of the California-Nevada Conference of the United Methodist Church, a sprawling geography that comprises a wide array ...

<P>New studies managed by the Pew Charitable Trusts show us how far the country still needs to go in achieving economic equality. New studies managed by the Pew Charitab ...

<p><P>Today, Sept. 20, over 10,000 people will converge on Jena, Louisiana, to call for justice for the "Jena 6." Thousands more will hold vigils in cities across America. As <a href=& ...

Rose Marie Berger Jonathan Mendez The United Church of Christ has been on the forefront ...

<P>I'm not friendly with the white-shirted drug dealers who work the corners near my house yet, but at least they acknowledge me as a neighbor now, instead of looking me over as a prospective buyer ...

Rose Marie Berger Damu Smith, 54, founder of Black Voices for Peace and executive director of the National Black Environmental Justice Net ...

Danny Duncan Collum Members and associates of Holy Family Catholic Church in Natchez, the first African-American parish in Mississippi, pl ...

Ivy George The First World becomes a one-way destination point for children from the global South. As an India ...

Robert Roth At its best the church is an "innocence project" for ourselves and others. Sometimes we ...

Laurna Strikwerda What does it mean to be female, Muslim, and American? “It’s hard for most people to underst ...

Danny Duncan Collum The 'Triple-A' music format comes with a nice fit, but only for a few. All radio ...

Donovan Jacobs Hollywood shows little respect for working-class and poor people. In less than five years—the t ...

Deanna Wylie Mayer The Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission held three public hearings between July and October last year to lo ...

Craig Detweiler Participating in the Divine Participating in the Divine Race relatio ...

James Ferguson Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Atlanta’s city ...

Julie Polter Why suburbs-on-steroids are wearing out their welcome. The Hunters Brooke subdivi ...

Danny Duncan Collum How faith and a newspaper transformed a Mississippi community. Increasingl ...

Danny Duncan Collum Race and politics in 2004. Race Race - as a question of black ...

David Hilfiker 50 years after Brown, segregation remains in force. On May 17, On M ...

Rose Marie Berger Brian Bolton Untitled Normal Page "State of the Dream 2004: Enduring Dispariti ...

J. Daryl Byler While many in the U.S. civil rights movement were busy integrating lunch counters, others took on an even tougher challenge ...

Larry Bellinger Cornel West is nothing if not prolific. Cornel West is nothing if not prolific. Professor of A ...

Danny Duncan Collum Mississippi votes to keep the 'Stars and Bars.' As the world knows by now, on Ap ...

Lloyd Wolf A remarkable program for black and Jewish teen-agers goes a long way toward busting stereotypes and fostering reconciliation. ...

Bob McLalan A conservative Republican makes the case for reparations for African Americans. I recently heard a ...

Aaron McCarroll Gallegos Honky, by Yale sociologist Dalton Conley, is a memoir of growing up during the 1970s and 1980s in the projects of ...

Chris Rice A straight-shooting white friend once commented that whenever blacks and whites are together it's like there's a &qu ...

Rose Marie Berger Census 2000 and a changing America. Every culture has rituals and devices for telling its pe ...

Larry Bellinger Ed Koch and Al Sharpton find common cause. In February 1999, I was present as my father and ot ...

Chris Rice Are we only liberated from something or are we also liberated into something? If you ever despair, ...

Will Campbell It's time to admit: We've lost the War on Drugs Some while back I tarried by the mail ...

Chris Rice The continuing scandal is summed up in a 1997 Gallup Poll: The Christian church remains the one "highly segregated" m ...