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Is the house that King built trying to end it all?
A new campaign aims to change attitudes around mental illness.
In this video Rachel Maddow suggests a way to honor the prize while holding the president accountable.
How can a father pass on knowledge of a legacy of injustice to his kids? A church in Brooklyn commemorates the horrors of the Middle Passage, and brings healing.
Although convicted felon Henry J. Lyons lost the election for president of the largest religious body of African Americans in the nation, what does it say about NBC that he was even eligible to run where women are not?
The tragedy of this health care debate is that the protesters won’t be the only ones who lose access to care—we all will.
Shouldn’t a professed “health and wealth” preacher be concerned with health care? Apparently, politics get in the way...
While it is tempting to dismiss professional athletes as overpaid ingrates, how many of us have to endure what amounts to 70 car accidents each Sunday? If Michael Vick were a janitor, he’d be back at work by now.
How sad and ironic that the revocation of citizen’s rights via Constitutional bans, is not on the SCLC’s radar. Is it a Movement or Museum?
After several months of vocal opposition to Rev. Braxton's compensation package, the Rhodes Scholar will not lead one of the nation's premier progressive institutions.
With a new essay on black, gay civil rights giant, Bayard Rustin, Rev. Sekou makes the case for comparisons between the gay rights and Civil Rights movements.
One of six prosperity preachers being investigated by the senate, Creflo Dollar (and his son) now face a $10M lawsuit for stealing a texting scheme...
A two-thousand person march in Southern California is now underway, sponsored by Jewish World Watch.
Carlton Pearson was a televangelist superstar, until he began preaching the gospel of inclusion and was ousted. But now this conservative Pentecostal preacher turned progressive religious radical has a new congregation.
A reality show about a failing family. The upholding of Prop. 8. There’s hypocrisy afoot in our culture.
Conservative bogeyman? Militant black nationalist? Cool screen-print? This quintessential intellectual was so much more.
A recent poll showed that white evangelicals are the religious group most likely to support torture. How can that be?
A Jewish professor is under fire for comparing the suffering of Jews in WWII to the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza. Do these comparisons serve any purpose?
Pastor Joel Osteen won't have a home team advantage this weekend in the Bronx, but chances are the crowd will be with him. What's this generation bringing to the Osteen brand?
An august group of scholars challenges academic theologians to begin appearing on daily talk shows and to write accessible books.
It's sink or swim for the "Prodigal Sons" of Televangelism like 30-year-old Frederick Price Jr. who takes over his father's ministry after "Hip Hop Sunday"...
A new poll says Southerners are more religious. But there are better markers of what makes a person religious than church affiliation.
15,000 hours of prime time televangelism is for sale in Atlanta, as the video legacy of the Praise The Lord network goes up for auction.
As the economy tanks, suicide rises...
Jim Adkisson's deranged would-be suicide note is a portrait of hate.