Because Jesus’ teachings are so challenging and radical, it is much more comfortable to focus on a quiet, private, personal relationship with him than it is to follow his teachings that call for a public prophetic witness. – Alvin Alexi Currier + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

Last week, U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan Andrew Natsios told an audience at Georgetown University that, at present, “the term genocide is counter to the facts of what is really occurring in Darfur.” What part of the ongoing, ethnically-targeted rape, displacement, and killing of civilians does Natsios not understand – and when will the U.S.…

This past week I stood with hundreds of black clergy as the sun rose over a memorial site constructed in the lower 9th Ward to honor the thousands of lives that were lost in the waters of Katrina. The vigil was organized as a part of the third Samuel DeWitt Proctor conference, a conference that…

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