More from Written in Protest
By Andre Henry October 5, 2020
(RNS) The charge to pray for stricken leaders has often been turned against oppressed people, and the Bible makes clear it’s acceptable to decline.
By Andre Henry July 4, 2020
(RNS) The basic principle we all celebrate on Independence Day, the consent of the governed, has long been broken in two by the color line.
By Andre Henry June 8, 2020
(RNS) I was told by classmates, mentors and friends in the evangelical world that my advocacy for black lives was hateful, heretical and a distraction for Christians.
By Andre Henry January 9, 2020
(RNS) A specter has been haunting white evangelicalism, in the shape of the late James Cone, a founder of black liberation theology.
What to expect on the religious scene in 2021: Experts cast their sights on the year ahead
We asked scholars, faith leaders, activists and other experts to reflect on some of the issues they’ve seen on the religious landscape and what they anticipate for 2021. Photo by Drew Beamer/Unsplash/Creative Commons
December 31, 2020
(RNS) This past year upended U.S. religious life in ways no one could have predicted and in some ways many have.
A devastating coronavirus pandemic led to countless deaths, a shift to online services and, in some quarters, a mostly partisan-driven defiance of public health restrictions.
It was also a year filled with large-scale racial unrest after the deaths of several unarmed Black people, leading to a renewed reckoning with the legacy of white supremacy in American Christianity.