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November 20, 2009: HIV-AIDS in DC
"How do we save our community?" asks Bishop Rainey Cheeks of Inner Light Ministries in Washington, DC. "We can have all the other theological debates later on, but right now we are in trouble."
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August 21, 2009: Passing the Mantle
"We must return to the values that made the black church a true success," says Rev. Mark Whitlock, director of community initiatives at USC's Center for Religion and Civic Culture, where a mentoring program trains African-American clergy in community organizing, economic development, and church leadership strategies.
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July 31, 2009: Interracial Churches
We’re segregated in housing. The job market is segregated, and we end up going to churches with people who look like us. Experts say US churches are ten times less diverse than the neighborhoods they sit in.
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July 31, 2009: Interview with Michael Emerson
Read more of Lucky Severson’s interview about interracial churches with Rice University sociology professor Michael Emerson.
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After ministering in inner-city Los Angeles for almost four decades, Father Peter Banks, an Irish Catholic priest, says "hope is to be able to sing in the middle of the darkness, and I can still sing in the middle of the darkness."
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Mark G. Toulouse: The Economy of Equality
When was the last time Pennsylvania Avenue and Times Square and countless other locations across the country were packed with crowds at 1:00 in the morning following a presidential election? The same nation that elected George Bush by the hanging chads of 2000 has just given the presidency to someone who was relatively unknown at that time.
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Gary Dorrien: Visible Man Rising
By the time The Speech of August 28, 2008 ended with an artful allusion to the March on Washington of August 28, 1963, the Democratic Convention had belatedly made a case for ending the rule of the Republicans.
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Harold Dean Trulear: Learning Political Wisdom
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick offered a curious contrast in his Democratic Convention speech earlier this week. He deemed Senator Barack Obama a man of vision and compared him to the policies and programs of the Bush administration.
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Gary Dorrien: Yes We Can…Change the Subject?
Barack Obama cannot help that the election campaign until now has been mostly about him -- his background, his personality, his race, his politics, his oratory, his church, his newness, his inexperience, his family, his primary victories, his victory over Hillary and Bill Clinton, his rock star tour of Europe.
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June 22, 2007: U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black
For more than 200 years there has been a chaplain in both the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate.The current Senate chaplain is the Reverend Barry Black, the first African American and the first Seventh-day Adventist in the position. Kim Lawton reports.
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