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: NewsOne | Roland Martin
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: 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: 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: Delaware Gazette | Jon Powers
I witness as much hatred between Christians as I do between Christians and people of other faiths.
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.
Source: Baptist News Global | Bob Allen
Al Mohler expressed sadness but not surprise at Tony Campolo’s announcement June 8 that he supports full inclusion of gays and lesbians into the life of the church.
Source: Washington Post (Acts of Faith) | Sarah Pulliam Bailey
Many evangelicals are wrestling with the question of whether you can support same-sex marriage and remain an evangelical.
Source: Washington Post (Acts of Faith) | Karen Yates
Not too long ago we lived in an era in Christian publishing where a woman like Katie Davis would have never had the opportunity to publish a book.
Source: Religion Dispatches | Sarah Posner
This is what happens when there’s nothing left to say about marriage equality.
Source: Christian Standard | Ben Cachiaras
Rather than choosing, they find a way to have both, “to have both A and B,” instead of choosing one or the other.
Source: ABA Journal | Kevin Davis
Conservatives coming out against capital punishment are part of a broader movement among conservatives who are supporting criminal justice reform policies once largely the domain of liberal-minded politicians.
Source: Huffington Post | Jim Wallis
Rather we should begin with repentance for those mistakes by listening better and humbly seeking better solutions.