Tobin Miller Shearer, Author at Religion News Service https://religionnews.com Driving essential conversation about how religion and beliefs shape us and our world. Sat, 07 Sep 2024 12:39:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://religionnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Favicon-100x100.png Tobin Miller Shearer, Author at Religion News Service https://religionnews.com 32 32 Black church leaders brought religion to politics in the ‘60s – but it was dramatically different from today’s white Christian nationalism https://religionnews.com/2024/09/06/black-church-brought-religion-to-politics-in-the-60s-but-different-to-white-christian-nationalism-today/ https://religionnews.com/2024/09/06/black-church-brought-religion-to-politics-in-the-60s-but-different-to-white-christian-nationalism-today/#respond Fri, 06 Sep 2024 14:25:10 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4165176&preview=true&preview_id=4165176 (The Conversation) — In 1966, the assertion of Black power was grounded in an appeal to the founding principles of the United States. Black church leaders called for healing internal divisions through engagement.

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