The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries (TFAM) occupies a distinct position in the religious lives of its mostly LGBT and African…
Reclamation in The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries
black churches
Spirit in the Dark—An introduction
Josef Sorett (Columbia University) introduces a critical exchange centered on his new book, Spirit in the Dark: A Religious History of…
Faith caught between racism and resistance
On June 16, a young white man motivated by white supremacist ideologies entered the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a…
Empty pews for some churches in Harlem
The New York Times recently published an article by Trymaine Lee detailing the hard times that the smaller, less well-known…
Civil religion, prophecy and Obama
For some scholars, "religion" gives the social cohesion and moral purpose without which a merely self-interested and fragmenting liberalism could…