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Famine in The Bible is More Than a Curse: It is a Signal of Change and a Chance for a New Beginning

By Joel Baden As the coronavirus spread rapidly around the world last year, the United Nations warned that the ...

What Is Wrong, What Went Wrong and How to Make it Right

A Year after George Floyd’s Death The guilty verdicts against Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd ...

Jim Crow in New Clothes

By Raphael Warnock Mr. President, before I begin my formal remarks, I want to pause to condemn the hatred ...

A Critical Interpretation of Speaking Truth to Power: Re-Presenting the Theological Methodology of James H. Cone

By Darvin Adams My PhD adviser and the president of Chicago Theological Seminary, Stephen G. Ray, Jr., reminds ...

Words of Challenge from a White Pastor to the Texas Legislative Black Caucus

By George A. Mason Introductory Word Many thanks for the invitation to speak to you. I imagine ...

Reading Claypool: Parables and People

Stories Jesus Still Tells, Glad Reunion, and The First to Follow By Walter B. Shurden Anyone who knew ...

Reflections on the Derek Chauvin Verdict

By J. Alfred Smith, Sr. We watched and watched, wore our eyes out looking for help. And nothing. ...

Whatsoever . . . Think on These Things

By Patrick R. Anderson, editor Philippians 4:8, KJV: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever ...

Black Men Have the Shortest Lifespans of Any Americans. This Theory Helps Explain Why.

By Joseph Singer, Nadia Sussman, Nina Martin and Akilah Johnson ProPublica The unrelenting stress of fighting systemic racism can alter a body’s normal ...

How a Muslim Beggar Taught Me about Dignity

By Robert P. Sellers Perhaps I had grown too accustomed to seeing people dig through the garbage containers ...