Black History Month
(Feburary 16, 2012) Popular singer Whitney Houston will be remembered on Saturday at the Newark Baptist church where she lifted her voice as a young choir member. Before rising to top the charts, she grew up in a community of faith that remained...
(January 10, 2012) How would Martin Luther King view today's faith activists? Professor Obery Hendricks, Professor Josef Sorett and Rabbi Steve Gutow say that King, the standard bearer for civil disobedience and faith leadership, would be...
(January 11, 2012) Prayer and protest are married yet this does not mean that one sits in a pew of passivity and does not act. The witness of Dr. King shows otherwise.
(March 1, 2011) The gift that Martin Luther King, Jr., gave to others in the American civil rights movement was the conviction that, whatever the cost, this was something that mattered, says the Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell. Campbell speaks of her...
(February 28, 2011) Recalling his days as civil rights worker registering voters in the South in 1965, innovative educator Peter Geffen says the ongoing work of building a more fair and just society must involve everyone, including those like...
(February 25, 2011) A personally autographed copy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s last book is a treasured possession and an ongoing challenge for the Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, Jr., noted theologian and pastor...
(February 22, 2011) Extending a naive invitation to Martin Luther King, Jr., to speak at her Cleveland church in the 1960s transformed her understanding of Christianity, shook the stability of her family and changed the path of the rest of her life...
(February 21, 2011) When there has been a time in a country's life when "difference" suggested "deficiency," says the Rev. Dr. James Forbes Jr., history "cries out for an opportunity" to celebrate the richness of...
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"Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible." Here in our Faith in Action section, we are focusing, as always, on the faith aspect of our topics -- and Mary McLeod Bethune is a good person to start with...
