by Starlette Thomas | Sep 4, 2019 | Opinion
Last Wednesday marked the 64th anniversary of Emmett Till’s death. The 14-year-old African American boy from Chicago was killed in Money, Mississippi, on Aug. 28, 1955. I know his story by heart; it was the first one I learned on domestic terrorism and mob lynching...
by Paul Baxley | Aug 20, 2019 | Opinion
Today marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved persons in what was to become the United States of America. In 1619, about 20 Africans arrived on the Virginia coast at the end of a grueling, dehumanizing trans-Atlantic voyage. Unlike so many...
by Starlette Thomas | Aug 6, 2019 | Opinion
Writer James Baldwin says rightly, “The effort not to know what one knows is the most corrupting effort one can make.” Still, the North American church is so empire-minded that it is of no earthly good. Left behind by a generation or two, the North American church...
by Alan Rudnick | Aug 6, 2019 | Opinion
What would it be like to be praying, singing and worshipping in a church service and to be nearly blown to pieces by a bomb? This grotesque thought, based on reality, was on my mind as I sat in 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, while attending Baptist...
by Michael Cheuk | Aug 1, 2019 | Christian Nationalism, Opinion
Hundreds of tiki torch-carrying, Nazi flag-waving, KKK-sympathizing white nationalists/supremacists terrorized University of Virginia students and the city of Charlottesville on Aug. 11-12, 2017, capturing the world’s attention. In the days and weeks afterward, many...
