THE "crude, insensitive, and paternalistic" comments made by Franklin Graham about police shootings, have been condemned by Evangelical leaders.
Source: Charlotte Observer | Kay McSpadden
The Belhar Confession calls on people of faith to stop demonizing the poor and to stand with them in unity instead.
Source: Christian Post | Lisa Sharon Harper
We recognize that there are times when disobedience and resistance to unjust authority is right, just, and biblical.
Source: Think Christian | Jim Wallis
Our Christian faith compels us to struggle for a more humane immigration system as a moral imperative.
Source: The Washington Post blog | Greg Sargent
One basic fact about immigration reform that continues to get lost in the noise is that evangelical Christians support it.
Source: Harvard Divinity Bulletin | Eboo Patel
In a highly religiously diverse and devout society, positive relationships among people who orient around religion differently are absolutely necessary.
Source: Leadership Journal (blog) | Paul Wilkinson
The Divide Over Franklin Graham's Facebook Comment
Source: The Blaze | Billy Hallowell
Some faith leaders are pushing back against famed evangelist Franklin Graham after he wrote a Facebook post addressed to “blacks, whites, Latinos, and everybody else,”
Source: 94.7 KRKS Denver | Carrie Dedrick
Franklin Graham is facing criticism after he wrote a Facebook that went viral in which he told “blacks, whites, Latinos, and everybody else” that “most police shootings can be avoided” with “respect for authority.”
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch Blog | Lilly Fowler
Graham's Facebook comment has created a division within the evangelical Christian community.
Source: Duluth News Tribune (Minnesota) | Melanie Grune, Diane Desotelle, Sally Munger
We have nothing to lose and everything to gain by acting on climate change now.
Source: Christianity Today blog | Bob Smietana
Obeying the police doesn’t heal the long history of distrust and broken relationships between police and minority groups, especially in urban neighborhoods, Smith said.
Source: Global Dispatch | Kaye Wonderhouse
A group of church leaders, led by Jim Wallis, Lisa Sharon Harper, have written an open letter to Franklin Graham, criticizing his Facebook comments last week about the killing of young black men by police as Graham called for respecting authority.
Source: Christian Today | Mark Woods
A group of church leaders have written an open letter to Franklin Graham, criticising his Facebook comments last week about the killing of young black men by police, and are gathering signatories.
Source: Albany Democrat-Herald | Donald Rea
There are folks who will stand up in peaceful demonstration against ISIS, and to support the ideal of Islam that it stands for peace.
Source: Christian Post | Lisa Sharon Harper
An Open Letter to Reverend Franklin Graham
Source: The Washington Post | Sarah Pulliam Bailey
Butler is looking for ways to infuse some of what has made evangelicalism thrive into a more progressive form of Protestantism, two forms of Christianity usually seen at odds with one another.
Source: Liberal America | Beth Still
According to Graham, if the guys would just do as the cops say and put their hands up, or behind their backs, or wherever the cops tell them to put them, everything would be fine.
Source: Campaign for America's Future | Terrance Heath
The Republican-led House Budget Committee’s fiscal 2016 budget proposal is full of immoral choices that will have devastating effects on the most vulnerable Americans.
Source: The Christian Century | Grant Wacker
This valuable anthology addresses a topic that usually flies under the media’s radar: “new” evangelicals’ progressive social engagement in the past quarter century.