by Jack Flynn | Mar 23, 2011 | News
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (RNS) After two accomplices pleaded guilty, the sole man to stand trial for torching a black church the night of President Obama’s election was confronted with secretly taped recordings during opening arguments on Monday (March 21). “Gas,...
by Colin Harris | Mar 11, 2011 | Opinion
Have you ever read or heard about something from the past and thought, “Hey, wait a minute. That’s what’s going on now!”? Sitting in recently on a seminar that has been studying the American South during the 1950s and ’60s created that...
by Keith Herron | Jan 28, 2011 | General
A sermon delivered by Keith Herron, Holmeswood Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo., on January 23, 2011. Matthew 4:12-23 When Jesus heard the news that John the Baptist was taken into prison, something must have reverberated deep within him. Something profound must have...
by Kevin Eckstrom | Jan 17, 2011 | News
(RNS) A coalition of Christian churches answered the Rev. Martin Luther King’s 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” conceding that Americans have often have chosen to be comfortable rather than “prophetic” on racism. Leaders of Christian Churches Together in the USA,...
by Colin Harris | Jan 14, 2011 | Opinion
The observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday has become, after a rather contentious early history, an appropriate national celebration of one of the pivotal personalities and movements of modern times. In addition to its reminder of the vision, leadership and...
