Brown v. Board of Education

Trailblazing Episcopal priest Pauli Murray to be featured on US quarters

By Yonat Shimron — February 14, 2023
(RNS) — The civil rights lawyer, activist, writer and priest was also gender nonconforming.

Overturning Roe wasn’t a win for faith. Kansas was.

By Jamie Manson — August 11, 2022
(RNS) — The vote showed that the anti-abortion movement is really about white privilege and political power. 

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an incrementalist, not a revolutionary, once questioned Roe v. Wade

By Thomas Reese — September 23, 2020
(RNS) — As we honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg, we may take to heart her advice on maintaining stability and faith in our institutions. 

America’s unjust efforts to preserve white privilege (COMMENTARY)

By Tom Ehrich — February 17, 2015
(RNS) In some places, whites seem to be on a mission to preserve the benefits of white privilege, even if that means gun violence, police brutality, unfair sentencing and the languishing of urban schools.

COMMENTARY: How Brown v. Board of Education still shapes our religious life

By Tom Ehrich — May 20, 2014
(RNS) How can a 60-year-old Supreme Court decision still be shaping religious life in America? It's because race still divides us.

‘The American Bible’ collects the texts that We the People love to fight about

By Daniel Burke — July 3, 2012

(RNS) There are certain speeches, songs, books, letters, laws, and axioms that Americans appreciate enough to argue about, says religion scholar Stephen Prothero. By Daniel Burke.

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