#WHOISBURNINGBLACKCHURCHES: IS IT FREEDOM SUMMER AGAIN?
All this in the few weeks since the shooting of nine members of Emanuel AME in Charleston. Forgive me for thinking that the summer of 2015 holds echoes of the summer of 1964.
Anthea Butler is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Graduate Chair of Religious Studies. She holds a Ph.D from Vanderibilt University in Religion, a Masters in Religion from Vanderbilt, and a Masters in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary. A historian of American and African...
All this in the few weeks since the shooting of nine members of Emanuel AME in Charleston. Forgive me for thinking that the summer of 2015 holds echoes of the summer of 1964.
Police are investigating the fatal shooting of nine African Americans at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., as a hate crime committed by a white man. Unfortunately, it’s not a unique event in American history.
For many people, the forgiveness offered to Dylann Roof, the man charged with killing of nine black members of Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, at his arraignment by the families of his victims is impossible to understand – and worthy of veneration.
Pope Francis’s pastoral letter for the Year of Mercy, indicating that priests may absolve those who procure abortions, does nothing to change Catholic church policy with regards to how abortion is viewed.
