Tag Archives: Racial Justice
Late We Come? The Need for Unapologetic Affirmation that Black Lives Matter to the White Church
“We come to the march behind and with those amazingly able leaders of the Negro Americans who, to the shame of almost every white American, have alone and without us mirrored the suffering of the cross of Jesus Christ; they … Continue reading
Strands of One Thread: Ecowomanism
Special from the Presbyterian Hunger Program, originally published in the Spring 2016 edition of the PHP Post. The struggle for gender, racial, and economic justice are all parts of the same thread, and deal with similar questions of power and … Continue reading
The Privilege of Only Singing ‘Our’ Song
It is most unlikely that Reginald Heber, vicar of the village church of Hodnet, meant to be hostile to or dismissive of the peoples of the world when he penned a hymn urging the church to its missionary task. Heber … Continue reading
“From the Slave Dungeons of Cape Coast”
A Nigerian Presbyterian Reflects on the Global Slave Trade ***** AUTHOR BIO: Jessie Fubara-Manuel is the secretary of the Tumekutana Gathering of Reformed Women in Africa. She is a poet, an elder in the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, and a … Continue reading