Some Oklahoma church members, long accustomed to welcoming everyone, may be asking themselves these questions in the aftermath of the recent church shootings in Charleston, S.C. Several clergy leaders said there's a fine balance between the usual hospitality offered by their churches and operating with a sense of caution that has been heightened by the Charleston killings.
Source: Oklahoman | Carla Hinton
Source: Huffington Post | Jim Wallis
The anguish, grace, and forgiveness of one family member after another stunned the world. Those families are not just victims now. They have set the tone for the nationalconversation on race that we now need to have. They want and will require justice but are also offering forgiveness.
Source: Catholic News Service | Mark Pattison
Lisa Sharon Harper, director of organizing for the Sojourners community in Washington, defined "America's original sin" as "racial hierarchy" at a June 15 conference on solidarity and faith issues in the nation's capital.
Source: Religion Dispatches | Christopher Stroop
We’ve also recently seen prominent evangelical speaker and author Tony Campolo generate some buzz by coming around to full LGBTQ affirmation, including here on RD, where senior editor Cathleen Falsani heralded Campolo’s move as “evangelicalism’s tipping point.”
Source: Christian Post | Stoyan Zaimov
Close to 100 evangelical and Roman Catholic leaders in the U.S. have united in a message calling on Christians to act on their "moral obligation" to fight climate change, which they also called a pro-life issue, following on Pope Francis' environmental encyclical released last week.
Source: America Magazine | John Carr
For just a few days, Washington’s obsession with the “middle class” and silence about those at the bottom was broken.
Source: ThinkProgress | Jack Jenkins
Close to 100 faith leaders are calling for lawmakers to act on climate change, urging elected officials to heed the words of Pope Francis and pass legislation that can help slow the advance of global warming.
Source: Louisville Courier-Journal
Reading (Monday’s) front-page article on the police forums, maybe it would be more helpful for citizens attending the forums to tell their stories first and ask the police officers to work on finding common ground with them.
Source: NewsOne | Roland Martin
Rev. Jim Wallis told Roland Martin, host of NewsOne Now, “White privilege is the benefit of White supremacy.” He added, “No matter where I go, no matter what I say, no matter where I live, no matter who my allies are — no matter how much I fight against racism — I as a White man can never escape White privilege in this country.”
Source: Religion News Service | Dale Hanson Burke
For the last decade, progressive evangelicals have rallied around social justice issues like poverty, racism and human trafficking. This week a gathering of Christian leaders brought another cause to the top of the agenda: domestic violence.
Source: WWF UK Blog | David Nussbaum
“Make yourself at home” – we might say to a friend who is a guest at our house. Planet Earth is, as the sub-title of the Pope’s new encyclical calls it, the ‘common home’ for humanity. And it’s a home that is increasingly falling into disrepair, due to lack of care by the tenants to whom it has been entrusted.
Source: Relevant | Jesse Carey
Beyond (certainly important) issues like the economy, education, taxes and foreign policy, this season brings a number of issues related to justice that Christian voters should consider when looking at candidates.
Source: National Journal | Clare Foran
"I want to give credit to the impetus that religious communities have brought to this issue," Biden said, applauding evangelical faith leaders such as Jim Wallis, as well as Francis.
Source: Grist | Ben Adler
This actually ought to make enviros hopeful. Francis’s encyclical may help move American public opinion at the margins.
Source: Deseret News | Mark Kellner
As the Supreme Court is poised to rule on same-sex marriage, evangelical Christian leaders are expressing opposing viewpoints, even though polls show a majority of the movement's rank-and-file oppose it.
Source: The New York Times | Rosalie Radomsky
Anne Marie Roderick and Joshua Stephen Witchger were married Saturday by the Rev. Frank G. Dunn, an Episcopal priest, at Judson Memorial Church in Manhattan, where the bride’s parents met and were married.
Source: Delaware Gazette | Jon Powers
I witness as much hatred between Christians as I do between Christians and people of other faiths.
Source: Christian Post | Chelsen Vicari
Several prominent political and religious leaders challenged the Church to shed its institutional "white privilege" and exercise a "restraint of [white] power."
Source: Huffington Post | Jim Wallis
Be informed about how climate change is affecting real people both globally and here in our own backyards. It's our moral responsibility.
Source: Patheos | David Swartz
Gasaway contends that Peace Pentecost offered a coherent social agenda. Grounded in a “public theology of community,” it stood in stark contrast to the pervasive individualism of midcentury evangelicalism.