Adelle M. Banks
Emanuel is latest victim in history of violence against black churches
For African Americans, church violence has historic dimensions....
Southern Baptists' efforts at racial reconciliation a mixed bag, review finds
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(RNS) Twenty years after the Southern Baptist Convention passed its landmark resolution on racial reconciliation, has it made any real progress?
...Gil Caldwell, King's ‘foot soldier’ for civil rights, works for LGBT rights, too: People
Gil Caldwell, 81, visited the campus of Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina, for a glimpse of what might have been.
...Interfaith activists call solitary confinement immoral, ineffective
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...Gil Caldwell, a ‘foot soldier’ for civil rights, turns his eye to LGBT rights
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...From Ferguson to Baltimore, black America's faith is tested
In the past week, Kelly Brown Douglas, a black Episcopal priest and religion professor at Baltimore’s Goucher College, joined students as they watched, analyzed and agonized about their city erupting in protest after the death of yet another black man, Freddie Gray, in police custody.
On Friday, the Baltimore state’s attorney criminally charged six officers involved in Gray’s death and declared his arrest was illegal.
Loretta Lynch supporters hold ‘pray-in’ on Capitol Hill to urge a vote on her confirmation
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...Robert H. Schuller, televangelist and Reformed pastor, dies at 88: People
Robert H. Schuller, a televangelist and Reformed pastor, died April 2 at age 88, according to the Hour of Power ministry he started.
He was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2013.
...Gardner C. Taylor, dean of black preachers, dies at 96
Gardner C. Taylor, widely considered the dean of the nation’s black preachers and “the poet laureate of American Protestantism,” died April 5. He was 96.
...Black lesbian bishop Yvette Flunder is ‘using my energy to find peace’
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...From competition to compassion, a university president leads the way
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...Religious college presidents see challenges to their schools' religious freedom
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...Priced out of New York, American Bible Society decamps to Philadelphia
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(RNS) After almost two centuries in New York City, the nonprofit American Bible Society is moving its headquarters to Philadelphia.
...Religious and secular advocates urge IRS to clarify rules on political endorsements from the pulpit
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