Anthea Butler

While Chris Martin has a deep interest in yoga spirituality, it does not make him an expert on how best to portray…

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God ain't good all of the time. In fact, sometimes, God is not for us.

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If there is anything that has broken the church's relationship with families, it is the global sexual abuse scandal.

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If there is anyone who values free speech, it is a tenured professor!

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Black women care deeply about civic engagement, democracy, education, children, and justice.

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What often happens in a court of law is that, if victims do get their day in court, they are on trial…

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If you're a black woman at an Ivy League school, there is no free speech for me because they're already pissed that…

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Bernice King, daughter of MLK, is an assistant pastor at New Birth.

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Judge Aquilina did what Michigan State University officials, USA Gymnastics, and the Karoyli ranch officials did not: Immediately believed the women who…

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The Charleston shooting is a result of an ingrained culture of racism and a history of terrorism in America. It should be…

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Gentrification is stripping people not only of their homes but also of their dignity and their lives, and it is effectively whitening…

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Spatial racism, the erasure of black faces in a predominantly white city, is in full effect in both Crown Heights and Center…

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The prosperity gospel and its purveyors are worldwide and account for the rapid growth of Pentecostalism, the global religious movement prosperity preachers…

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What is the role of a public intellectual in the age of Twitter and soundbites? Is it to share your thoughts for…

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Despite a rich history of black Americans involved in the Catholic Church, invisibility is a big problem for black Catholics in America.

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The conversation of cultural appropriation versus appreciation is especially important for the NFL as it seeks to expand its fan base to…

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Historically, narratives of forgiveness were part of both the anti-slavery movement and the civil rights movement in America. 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' for…

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In the past, candidates' performances of 'Christianity' have been strong points for voters, but Trump's ascendancy with evangelicals has eviscerated that expectation.…

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In the racialized space of capitalist gentrification, police are not only arbiters of the peace, they are the muscle of retail racism:…

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Pope Francis has mentioned several times in public prior to 'Amoris Laetitia''s release that lack of work was keeping young people from…

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There is not one particular moment that can account for the shift from the social issue concerns of 19th-century evangelicals into the…

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These 21st-century 'teavangelicals,' who represent a considerable segment of the Republican party, are vastly different from their 19th-century forebears. Nineteenth-century evangelicals were…

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In evangelical and Pentecostal churches, most people have a home church they identify with, but you have a favourite pastor or evangelist…

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Protestants attacked Catholics during the 1844 Nativist riots in Philadelphia. Guess what that was about? Anti-immigrant sentiment. Back then, it was the…

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I went to Catholic school and experienced racism firsthand from nuns and priests.

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One of the first books that outlined spiritual mapping was 'Breaking Strongholds in Your City: How to Use Spiritual Mapping to Make…

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'Hymn for the Weekend' mixes cultural and religious practices, commodifying them into a banal but beautiful message of imagined solidarity.

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Issues over same-sex marriage and LGBT people in the PCUSA are not new: there is a 40-plus year history of arguments and…

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In Pope Francis's 'Amoris Laetitia' (The Joy of Love), an apostolic exhortation on Catholic family life, he does not make earth-shattering doctrinal…

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Pope Francis is calling for a better way to hold together complicated family lives in the midst of official church teaching without…

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Trump, despite his shallow depth of biblical knowledge, plays into both the apocalyptic end-time fears of evangelicals and their nostalgia for a…

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The moment of true capitulation came when the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association quietly took Mormonism off the list of apostate religious groups.

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The decision to allow clergy to perform same-sex marriages at the discretion of the congregation poses challenges for seminaries training new pastors…

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Incidents of racial bias and implicit bias happen to African-Americans of every social class daily in America. White people seldom notice or…

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Judges can bring their own biases about sexuality in the courtroom, causing victims untold pain in the telling and retailing of their…

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The 'teavangelicals' of the 21st century have flipped the script, turning their ideas about Christianity, social responsibility, and care for the downtrodden…

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Coldplay's 'Hymn for the Weekend' video featuring Beyonce is already caught in a heated conversation about cultural appreciation of Indian religion and…

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Forgiveness became a big part of the civil rights movement, juxtaposed against the violence of protesters and law enforcement. King described forgiveness…

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My memories of Vatican II center on white parishioners turning away from me when I went to shake their hands at Mass…

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While it is important that black women begin to receive the accolades and assistance they are due from the Democratic Party, they…

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