Black women's faith, black women's flourishing

'In this to the end': LGBT United Methodists express hurt, hope after vote
Religion News Service: After a wrenching three days of deliberations and spending $3.7 million to organize a special conference of its global church, the UMC has only marginally more clarity on its future than when the meeting began.
NPR: Lesbian bishop responds to LGBTQ ban in United Methodist Church

Revisiting 'battle for the minds' after nearly a quarter of a century
Baptist News Global: A 1995 documentary serves as a cautionary tale about the ongoing misogyny within the Southern Baptist ecclesial tradition, says Molly T. Marshall.

Black women's faith, black women's flourishing
Christian Century: Womanist theology proclaims a future beyond the strongholds of racism, sexism, and injustice, says Eboni Marshall Turman.

Million-dollar lawsuits are not the way to learn from the Covington Catholic incident
America: Painful situation provides an opportunity for the students of Covington Catholic and for the Catholic Church to choose another path -- to be salt and light in a moment of deep polarization and distrust.

The 1970s movement to reclaim Pretzels for God
Atlas Obscura: "Pretzels for God" even took as its patron the first Native American saint.