After the election of the new leaders of Brazil's bishops' conference April 24, two Afro Brazilian priests released a public letter criticizing the fact that most of them are white and affirmed that the Brazilian church's "power structure" is tainted by "racism" and by a "pact of whiteness."
Those who identify as Christians, especially those of us who are white Christians, have a responsibility rooted in the core of our faith tradition to diagnose and respond to the viruses of racism and gun violence.
The documentary "Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America" is essential viewing, arriving at a crucial moment when too many deny racism happens. The film revolves around a lawyer's comprehensive talk on anti-Black racism.
"There is a benefit and a gift to people who don't identify as Black Christian women to listen respectfully to these stories and narratives," said a co-author of a new book about religion, race and gender.
Book Review: Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood provides an extraordinarily intimate and insightful book that balances Mark Oppenheimer's clear love for Squirrel Hill with a dispassionate reportorial perspective.
During the 1983 World Council of Churches' Sixth World Assembly, Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu said that during interrogations and while under house arrest, "I have been physically buoyed by your prayers."
We say: Let us use Advent to recommit ourselves to eliminating systemic oppression in the U.S. and to push the church toward being better allies to communities constantly under the threat of violence.
Book review: When I read the news of the hundreds upon hundreds of unmarked graves discovered at formerly Catholic Indigenous boarding schools in Canada, I was reminded of my recent reading about "settler colonialism."
Scholar and author Anthea Butler says it's impossible to tell the history of American evangelicalism without acknowledging how racism helped shape its theology, institutions and culture. The U.S. Catholic Church shares this history, she adds.
