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Jonathan L. Walton.

It has become common to blame the black community for the passage of California's same-sex marriage ban. A look at the statistics and logic put the lie to this seductive and simplistic narrative.

Jonathan L. Walton.

Is President Obama destined to disappoint progressives? Our columnist channels theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, reminding us of the human potential for both good and evil, and offering a pragmatic approach...

Jonathan L. Walton.

A colleague suggests, in response to Andre Wills' recent RD article, that being evangelical is no more antithetical to the prophetic strand of the black church than R&B is to gospel music...

Jonathan L. Walton.

“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” illumines the hypocrisy of a nation unable to check and challenge itself concerning its own moral hubris.

Jonathan L. Walton.

Senator Obama has contributed to a conception of responsible African American father as the shocking exception as opposed to the standard norm...

Jonathan L. Walton.

Obama supporters should "chill out" in the face of this swiftboating via the conflation of Obama and Wright into an undifferentiated brown blob of black radicalism broadcast together in a twenty-four hour news cycle...

Jonathan L. Walton.

Despite our annual effort to remember it differently, Dr. King was universally criticized for his refusal to be a good "negro leader"...

Jonathan L. Walton.

It's inappropriate to compare Wright with Falwell, Robertson or Hagee who lay the ills of society at the door of America’s “usual suspects.”

Jonathan L. Walton.

The enduring popularity of the Confederate flag has to do with faith and honor, not facts and history...

Jonathan L. Walton.

The dilemma of the believing theologian...

Jonathan L. Walton.

It is simply assumed that black politicians live or die by the support of black preachers -- but is it true?