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Christians, Conservatives, and Evangelicals Aren’t White Supremacists- Despite Media Claim

The media have been trying to tarnish the reputation of conservatives, Christians and evangelicals for quite some time, to be sure. Yet since Donald Trump won the election, media types and other leftist acolytes have been working especially hard to…

Derryck GreenSeptember 19, 2017

Culture Faith Politics Race Religion

Christian Responses to Charlottesville: Forgiveness, Not Virtue Signaling

The responses to the white supremacy rally and the resulting violence in Charlottesville have metastasized out of proportion to what happened. The media’s amplification and exploitation of last weekend’s events, the surrounding tensions- and virtue signaling reactions- have been…

Derryck GreenAugust 17, 2017

Culture Faith Politics Religion

Progressive Christians to “Take Back Their Faith” After Disappointing Election

A week after the election, the Huffington Post published a blog in which Progressive Christians suggested what like-minded Christians should do in order to “take back their faith.” Still reeling from the election in which Donald Trump was elected president, several…

Derryck GreenDecember 1, 2016

Culture Faith Politics Religion

Black Clergy, Hillary Clinton, and Outsourcing Black Responsibility

A group of black clergy members recently delivered a letter to Hillary Clinton’s campaign headquarters in Brooklyn that expressed concern and frustration on several key social and economic issues. Anticipating her win against Donald Trump, the open letter expressed their…

Derryck GreenNovember 8, 2016

Culture Faith Politics Race Religion

The Politics of Jen Hatmaker are Influenced More by Leftism than Christianity

The 2016 election cycle has definitely cultivated an interesting and divergent compendium of Christian and evangelical appraisals concerning the respective candidates running for president. Donald Trump’s unconventional and unexpected campaign that earned him the Republican nomination has forced conservative evangelicals…

Derryck GreenOctober 26, 2016

Faith Politics Race Religion Uncategorized

Review: Heal Us, Emmanuel: A Call for Racial Reconciliation, Representation, and Unity in the Church

Heal Us, Emmanuel: A Call for Racial Reconciliation, Representation, and Unity in the Church, edited by Doug Serven. Oklahoma City, OK: White Blackbird Books, 2016. 326 pp. Racial discrimination and racial injustice are predictably tense topics and sensitive areas of public discussion.…

Derryck GreenOctober 21, 2016

Book Review Culture Faith Religion

Book Review: The End of White Christian America

The End of White Christian America, by Robert P. Jones. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016. 309 pages According to Robert P. Jones, the founder and CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), White Christian America- “the most prominent…

Derryck GreenSeptember 23, 2016

Politics Religion

Actually Shane Claiborne, Christians Should Support Capital Punishment

All Christians Should Support Capital Punishment Shane Claiborne- a social justice activist, a progressive Christian who runs the Simple Way community in Philadelphia, and an author who published Executing Grace earlier this summer about the death penalty- was recently interviewed…

Derryck GreenAugust 17, 2016

Religion

Christian Dating Site Forced to Include Same-Sex Searches

The march of the LGBT totalitarians continues. The latest example of the erosion of religious liberty comes as a judge recently ruled that the owners of Christian online dating service ChristianMingle.com, Spark Networks Inc., must begin including gay persons as…

Derryck GreenJuly 5, 2016

Race Religion

Facts Don’t Care about Feelings in Painful Race Realities

Christian blogger Nicola A. Menzie is the proprietor of Faithfully Magazine, an online website, that seeks to, “capture, curate and contribute to conversations about the intersection of race, culture and Christianity.” According to Menzie, the reason her website exists is…

Derryck GreenApril 29, 2016

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