Remembering We Can Fly
Video Produced by Art Hooker. Mixed and Mastered by Jay Kale. Co-produced by Lisa Sharon Harper and Andre Henry, performed by Andre and written by Lisa with Common Hymnal’s Phillip Joubert and Vincent Charlow...
Why the US Senate Needs to Affirm Equal Rights for All Citizens
Editor’s Note: Previously published on RNS on April 27, 2023.
It is time to abolish the myth of ‘differently equal’ once and for all.
(RNS) — “As pernicious as the racial doctrine of ‘separate but equal...
Now more than ever: Let’s get the Equal Rights Amendment finalized
Lisa Sharon Harper, Allyson McKinney Timm, Valarie Kaur, Mary Hunt, Rabbi Sharon Brous and Ani Zonneveld
As women of faith, we are committed to the common task of making the ERA the law of the land.
(RNS) — Recent Supreme Court opinions dangerously undermine women’s equal protection under the law. As women of fai...
The Death of Roe and the Resurrection of White Men in America
Whenever white men have controlled women’s bodies on American soil, the men have benefited. Now, on the other side of Roe, it’s clear: the 40-year fight of my white evangelical brothers and sisters to end Roe was not about morality. It was about power. By ending Roe, they get it back.
An Excerpt From Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World – And How to Repair It All
Standing before the court, eighteen-year-old Fortune was born free and should have remained free according to Lord Baltimore’s 1681 legal turnabout. But of course the application of law is different from the law itself.
Why We’re Glad Our Publisher Isn’t Backing The ‘God Bless The USA’ Bible
As authors published by Zondervan, a division of HarperCollins Christian Publishing known for its NIV Bibles, and activists against Christian nationalism, we were alarmed at this news, first reported by Religion Unplugged. We’re delighted today that Zondervan announced it will not support this Bible.
Faith and Politics: Which Guides the Other?
Jesus is someone who really made a change where he was, and his love was sacrificial. If that's the Jesus that we teach, especially in my Evangelical spaces, that would be a game-changer for the way people view politics, for the way people view how change should be done in our country.
A Prayer for the King
I want our political system to treat every life as precious and to protect people from oppression and violence. We can then argue about different strategies, but that's what I think we need to be about as a country.
Environmental Racism & COVID-19
The best thing that we've known to do is to truly take on that Jeremiah 29. How do we seek the peace and prosperity of those who don't have the option to leave? They are stuck here, and they are struggling to just meet those basic provisional needs for themselves.
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
The Statue of Liberty is weeping at some of the viciousness of these policies. There are 92 scriptures that specifically talk about hospitality to the stranger.