by Al Webb | Dec 16, 2010 | News
LONDON (RNS) A right-wing political group that had asked a controversial Florida pastor to appear at an anti-Islam demonstration next year now says it has withdrawn the invitation because “he is not the right candidate for us.” Terry Jones, who gained international...
by Wendell Griffen | Nov 1, 2010 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This column is a response to the recent report, “Tea Party Nationalism: A Critical Examination of the Tea Party Movement and the Size, Scope, and Focus of Its National Factions.” Tea Party leaders often deny being motivated by racial...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Oct 28, 2010 | News
A new report untangles the wad of Tea Party threads, and the movement laid bare shows less obsession with government and taxes and more obsession with race, ethnicity and Barack Obama. “The result of this study contravenes many of the Tea Parties’...
by Michael O'Malley and The Plain Dealer | Aug 25, 2010 | News
CLEVELAND (RNS) Members of the World Council of Churches, representing more than 560 million Christians in 110 countries, will gather in Cleveland to discuss how to expose and combat racism around the globe. The four-day seminar, which starts Thursday (Aug. 26) and...
by Naomi King Walker | Aug 11, 2010 | Opinion
Racism or sexism? Which is a bigger problem for churches? Historically, Americans have dealt with racism much longer than sexism. Caucasian vs. African-American (“white” vs. “black”) issues were the focus of civil war over a half-century before...
