Saviours’ Day
The Nation of Islam’s Annual Commemoration of Divine Intervention and Black Resurrection Saviours’ Day (often styled as Saviour’s Day in earlier references) is the premier...
Category : Religion
Cotton Mather
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Cotton Mather (February 12, 1663 – February 13/15, 1728) was a prominent Puritan minister, prolific author, and one of the most influential intellectual figures in...
Rev. George Washington Lee
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Rev. George Washington Lee (December 25, 1903 – May 7, 1955) was an African American Baptist minister, entrepreneur, civil rights leader, and voting rights activist...
Dum Diversas: The Papal Bull That Legitimized Conquest and Slavery
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In the annals of ecclesiastical history, few documents carry the weight of moral and geopolitical consequence as Dum Diversas, a papal bull issued on June...
Al-Qurtubi
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Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abu Bakr al-Ansari al-Qurtubi, known as Al-Qurtubi, was born in 1214 in Córdoba, in Al-Andalus (present-day Spain). Córdoba at...
Robert Lewis Dabney
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Robert Lewis Dabney (1820-1898) stands as one of the most influential and controversial theological figures in American Presbyterian history. Born on March 5, 1820, in...
James Henley Thornwell
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James Henley Thornwell (1812-1862) was a Southern Presbyterian theologian and Confederate ideologue born on December 9, 1812, in the Marlboro District of South Carolina. Orphaned...
Ephesians 6:5 in Context
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Ephesians 6:5 states, “Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ” (NIV). This...
Reverend Robert A. Elwood
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Reverend Robert A. Elwood was a Presbyterian minister whose inflammatory rhetoric directly contributed to one of the most notorious lynchings in Delaware history. In June...
The Religious Right’s Disconnect from Decency & Justice
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The Religious Right in America and Its Disconnect from Decency, Love, Equality, and Justice for Black Americans: The Role of the “White Community” The principles...