Adelle M. Banks
Ferguson letter from black clergy becomes interracial call for justice
c. 2014 Religion News Service
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Black churches address suicide, mental illness
The death of comedian Robin Williams has heightened awareness of suicide and mental health. But many African-American churches quietly began educating members on the issue well before.
...Assemblies of God turns 100, and looks to a multiethnic future
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...More than 100 religious, immigration activists arrested at White House
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...A ‘soul-winning script’ for the nursing home
Rhonda Rowe and her team gathered around a diagram of the nursing home’s floor plan and determined how to split up to avoid praying with anyone twice.
...Obama’s faith-based advisers divided over religious exemption for anti-gay discrimination
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...Is the black church shifting on gay marriage? Q&A with filmmaker Yoruba Richen
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...Growing coalition presses Obama to end policy on religious discrimination in hiring
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...Baptist seminary head apologizes for admitting Muslim to Ph.D. program
The head of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary offered an emotional apology to Southern Baptists meeting in Baltimore for accepting a Muslim student into his school’s Ph.D....
Rick Warren to pastors: 'There is no testimony without a test'
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...Southern Baptists meet as membership, baptism decline continues
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...Navy rejects request for first humanist chaplain
c. 2014 Religion News Service
(RNS) After the Army recently permitted “humanist” as a religious preference, many hoped a humanist chaplain might follow.
...Christian leaders say Middle East Christians must not be forgotten
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...One more time, evangelicals head to Hill on immigration reform
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...Obama mourns Kansas gun violence, anti-Semitism: ‘We’re all children of God’
President Obama called for people of all faiths to deter gun violence and anti-Semitism one day after a gunman killed three people at Jewish centers in suburban Kansas City.
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