"America, we have a problem."
Source: The Tablet | Jim Wallis
The Church must work with young leaders like those we met with in Ferguson to help America find its way forward.
Source: Los Angeles Times | Kevin Baxter
Seven more states signed on to a lawsuit challenging President Obama’s executive action halting the deportation of as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants, bringing the total to 24 states.
Source: Catholic News Service | Mark Pattison
A new coalition has been formed to bring about the end of the death penalty in the United States.
Source: Christian Post | Samuel Smith
The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty announced on Tuesday the launch of a new coalition to pressure state governments to end capital punishment.
Source: Religion News Service | Jonathan Merritt
Perhaps this isn’t the time for me–and other white Christians–to speak. Maybe we should listen instead. To people of color. To our brothers and sisters.
Source: Huffington Post | Jim Wallis
America, we have a problem. It's past time to fix it, and the church must stand alongside a new generation of young leaders and help the nation find the way forward.
Source: Religion News Service | Adelle M. Banks
White Christians, including evangelicals, have grown more vocal in urging predominantly white churches to no longer turn a blind eye to injustice and to bridge the country’s racial divides.
Source: Huffington Post Live | Marc Lamont Hill
What do the killing of Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown tell us about race in America?
Source: The Ed Show | Ed Schultz
Calm demonstrations continue across the country, as protesters demanded justice for Michael Brown and future cases. Ed Schultz, Activist T-Dubb-O, Rev. Dr. William Barber, and Jim Wallis discuss.
Source: Imperial Valley Press | Mark Kellner
Religious leaders from across the theological and political spectrum are calling for peace — with some adding demands for social change — in the aftermath of a Missouri grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, over the Aug. 9 shooting of an unarmed black teenager.
Source: Relevant Magazine | Lisa Sharon Harper
We asked Lisa Sharon Harper to answer a few questions about the verdict, the broader context behind the protests and what it all means for Christians.
Source: Huffington Post | Jim Wallis
The verdict on America's criminal justice system is already in for many Americans: guilty, for treating young black men differently than young white men.
Source: Christian Post | Lisa Sharon Harper
As the church considers the events of these days, the greatest challenge we face is this: Will we allow our view of "what we see" to go unexamined?
Source: Christianity Today | Ed Stetzer
In light of the grand jury decision handed down tonight, it is of utmost importance that all Christians, but specifically white evangelicals, talk less and listen more.
Source: The Age | Nick O'Malley
Tamir Rice, 12, was with his sister and a friend in a gazebo in a Cleveland park on Saturday when a rookie cop shot him in the chest.
Source: Huffington Post | Jim Wallis
Tonight, faith leaders and all those who have spent years trying to fix our broken immigration system should feel gratitude toward President Obama.
Source: Christian Post | Leonardo Blair
Members of the EIT have expressed divided positions on how President Obama has decided to help the strangers living in the shadows.
Source: Christian Today | Mark Woods
Obama's announcement of reforms to America's immigrant laws has exposed divisions in US evangelical attitudes.
Source: Huffington Post | Sam Stein, Elise Foley
After years of pushing the Obama administration to grant protections to undocumented immigrants, advocacy groups are now gearing up to make sure that policy actually works.