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Moving Beyond Graham’s Legacy: Raising the Bar on Evangelical Participation in Civil Rights
* This article originally appeared on The Witness: A Black Christian Collective 6/27/18 The late Billy Graham said in an Associated Press interview in 2005 that he wished he had done more for Civil Rights. He especially regretted not partnering with Martin Luther King, Jr. “I think I made a mistake when I didn’t go … Continue reading Moving Beyond Graham’s Legacy: Raising the Bar on Evangelical Participation in Civil Rights
A Wilderness Wandering After the “Quiet Exodus”
* This article originally appeared on The Witness: A Black Christian Collective 4/23/18 In a revealing article in the New York Times, journalist Campbell Robertson, details the impact of the 2016 election on black Christians in white churches. Observing the overwhelming political support that white evangelicals exhibited for the current president, many African Americans felt … Continue reading A Wilderness Wandering After the “Quiet Exodus”
Why Juneteenth Should Be a National Holiday
*This article originally appeared on The Witness: A Black Christian Collective America fought it’s bloodiest war mainly over the issue of slavery. It took the deaths of over half a million citizens to abolish the heinous institution. This figure does not account for the untold numbers of black lives devastated by slavery—brutal corporal punishments, the … Continue reading Why Juneteenth Should Be a National Holiday
That Time When a Preacher Pushed to Keep Slave Families Together and for the Continuation of Slavery…in the Same Sermon
Christians are certainly right to criticize Attorney General Jeff Sessions for citing Romans 13 as a reason to support the separation of children from their parents under a draconian immigration policy at the border. Studying history, however, makes one aware how of how inconsistent religious people can be when it comes to justice. Christians of … Continue reading That Time When a Preacher Pushed to Keep Slave Families Together and for the Continuation of Slavery…in the Same Sermon
