David E. Anderson
David E. Anderson is senior editor at RNS and has been covering religion and social issues for more than 30 years.
All Stories by David E. Anderson
Feisty civil rights activist Will Campbell dies at 88
By David E. Anderson — June 5, 2013
(RNS) A Southern Baptist who drank moonshine with the Catholic nuns he counted as his friends, Campbell was an equal-opportunity critic, castigating liberals as well as conservatives in his writing, preaching and storytelling.
The sacred ran through jazz legend Dave Brubeck’s music
By David E. Anderson — December 6, 2012
(RNS) Jazz legend Dave Brubeck was best known in the secular jazz world for his startling compositions using different time signatures. Religion, however, was never far from Brubeck’s creative mind -- or his inspiration. By David E. Anderson.
Provocative art put Catholic nun in the middle of 1960s maelstrom
By David E. Anderson — July 11, 2012
(RNS) Combining images and words from advertising, pop culture and religion, the bold graphic art of Sister Mary Corita was as deeply representative of the spirit of the 1960s as it was ubiquitous in church basements, dorm rooms and urban communes of people involved in the struggle for civil rights and the campaign to end the Vietnam War. By David E. Anderson.
Martin Luther King Jr.‘s search for a `beloved community’
By Adelle M. Banks and David E. Anderson — January 11, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-He is celebrated as a civil rights leader, a social reformer and a great orator, a towering figure of 20th-century pacifism and political leadership. But the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was also a theologian, a title often forgotten each Jan. 15, on the anniversary of his birth. Yet it […]
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