Race Relations

As Tulsa pauses to mark the 100 year anniversary of the racially motivated Tulsa Massacre, Rev. Robert R.A. Turner and other Black people of faith are saying that the time has come to repay as well as to remember.

According to a recent Barna Group survey, 29 percent of Protestant pastors said they had given “real, serious consideration to quitting being in full-time ministry within the last year.”

Churches across Minnesota are working to find the best ways to minister to others amid rising racial tensions.

Evangelist Franklin Graham is calling for prayer as the murder trial for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin comes to a close.

In the next several days, a jury will determine if former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is guilty of murder. What they decide will reverberate across the nation and around the world in a way that may shape much of the discourse on issues of race, police conduct, and justice for quite some time. In light of those potential repercussions, today I’d like for us to focus on how we can best pray for those on the jury, the crowds gathered in anticipation of their verdict, and for our fellow believers to respond in accordance with God’s sense of justice rather than our own.

Faith leaders are speaking out following the officer-involved shooting death of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man. 

After the police-involved shooting death of a 20-year-old Black man in Minnesota over the weekend, Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib has called for the end of policing.

Protestors have taken to the Minnesota streets after a young Black man was shot and killed by police during a traffic stop.

A best-selling book that includes a prayer asking for God to “help me to hate White people” sparked controversy this week after a Virginia pastor posted excerpts from the book on social media and urged Christians to be cautious about such theology.

Thousands of Christians reportedly gathered together over the weekend to stand in solidarity with the Asian American community amid rising anti-Asian hate crimes.