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Race Religion

Facts Don’t Care about Feelings in Painful Race Realities

Christian blogger Nicola A. Menzie is the proprietor of Faithfully Magazine. This website seeks to “capture, curate, and contribute to conversations about the intersection of race, culture, and Christianity.” According to Menzie, her website exists because, as she says, “Contrary…

Derryck GreenApril 29, 2016

Race Religion

“Anablacktivism” and the Racial Grievance Industry

Last week, Evangelicals for Social Action sent out a tweet in support of Drew G.I. Hart’s website that has as its tagline Anablacktivism, which is an amalgamation of Anabaptism, black theology, and activism. The specific entry the tweet highlights are “Black-on-Black…

Derryck GreenMarch 30, 2016

Politics Religion

Rob Schenck Is Wrong. One Can Be Pro-Life and ‘Pro-Gun’

Last week Reverend Rob Schenck, an evangelical Christian, published a morally confusing, anti-firearm piece in the Washington Post. Specifically, the article’s tenor held that Christians couldn’t be pro-life if they were pro-gun. He claimed that one couldn’t be both pro-life and…

Derryck GreenJanuary 6, 2016

Politics Race Religion

InterVarsity Seduced by #BlackLivesMatter, Compartmentalized “Justice”

Despite the contradiction between its activist agenda and what the name of the organization (and hashtag) superficially implies, the social current of #BlackLivesMatter has successfully swallowed many churches and Christian organizations in its supposed quest for racial and social “justice.”…

Derryck GreenJanuary 4, 2016

Faith Politics Religion

Christians Should Not Encourage Resistance to Police

The latest in the ongoing, media-created narrative regarding the disproportionate incidents of police brutality against black Americans involves a pool party in a suburban area of McKinney, Texas — the video expected to go viral. Time and again, people are…

Derryck GreenJune 28, 2015

Faith Politics Religion

Contrasting Post Charleston Sermons

Last weekend, Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, held its first church service since the massacre that claimed the lives of nine members of its congregation. Rev. Norvell Goff- preaching because the church’s regular pastor, Rev. Clementa C.…

Derryck GreenJune 28, 2015

Faith Religion

First Service at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church Following Massacre

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Derryck GreenJune 22, 2015

Religion