I was so struck by the rare effort made by the film Selma to highlight the roles of women in that struggle, which by many accounts was the high-water mark of the civil rights movement.
Source: Christian Post | Lisa Sharon Harper
Source: The Epoch Times | Gary Feuerberg
Signed by 100 theologians, this letter will ask whether the candidate is willing to make ending hunger and poverty a top priority in his or her administration.
Source: CNN | Heidi Schlumpf
What concerns me is his apparent belief that religion should have special protection when it comes to free speech.
Source: Catholic Courier | Dennis Sadowski
Under an umbrella organization called Circle of Protection, 100 Christian leaders want all presidential candidates to make poverty a priority throughout the campaign.
Source: Christian Post | Samuel Smith
A coalition of 100 Christian faith leaders is urging all potential 2016 presidential candidates to post videos stating how they plan to alleviate poverty and hunger in the United States and abroad.
Source: Huffington Post | Jim Wallis
Our first response to the horrible and frightening violence of Paris should be grief.
Source: Huffington Post | Lisa Sharon Harper
The movement's lessons have shaped my life. I feel like I am about to meet my heroes.
Source: The Current (CBC) | Anna Maria Tremonti
The Catholic Church is about to bring the influence of the Holy See to the issue of climate change. Today, we look at the religious push to protect the environment.
Source: Sea Coast Online | Robert Azzi
No matter how it's framed, our current crisis is not just about police. It's about deeply ingrained American institutional privilege and racist inequities; inequities clearly apparent in disparities in sentencing and incarceration rates, family income, access to education and health care, and employment and housing opportunities.
Source: Penticton Herald | David Buckna
Jesus’ statement has often been misused by churchgoers and others as an excuse not to do anything about the poor. According to The Dictionary of Biblical Tradition, most Christian theologians say the statement should be read in light of the Hebrew admonition to always assist the poor.
Source: Patheos | Kyle Christofalo
Perpetrators of crime must be punished for their actions. No one should be the victim of a violent crime. The death penalty, however, does not bring us closer to justice or wholeness.
Source: Huffington Post | Jim Wallis
We often only use the word in the context of our New Years, but "resolution" is a nuanced noun.
Source: Iowa City Press Citizen | Kelley Jon Donham
Next time, I will take the bus and recall fondly the spirit of giving experienced on past rides.
Source: Politico | Jennifer Epstein
President Barack Obama rarely goes to church but that’s not for lack of faith, members of his small circle of religious confidants say.
Source: Holyrood | Henry McLeish
The relationship between our politics, our ethics and our public life remain at the heart of this inequality and poverty story.
Source: Christian Post | Lisa Sharon Harper
I pray this Christmas brings revelation—revelation of a world where the state ends its war on black and brown communities.
Source: The Atlantic | Robert P. Jones
The racial tensions that have spilled from Ferguson and Staten Island into Advent this year promise to haunt our holiday celebrations like the ghost of Christmas past.
Source: Capital Commentary | Harold Dean Trulear
A recent trip to Ferguson, MO gave me and some forty religious leaders an opportunity to reflect on the integration of spiritual development and social justice.
Source: Religion and Ethics Newsweekly | Bob Abernethy, Kim Lawton
How are faith groups mobilizing on issues of race?
Source: Huffington Post | Jim Wallis
The question is: Are we white people going to listen or not?