ISSUES – Race and Religion

 

ISSUES – Race and Religion

 

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White Wash: For black Saints, forgetting the LDS Church’s racist heritage is easier said than done.
by Shane Johnson (Salt Lake City Weekly)
http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2004/feat_2004-12-16.cfm (December 16, 2004)

Languages of the Bible
by Emily Monroy (The Multiracial Activist)
https://www.multiracial.com/readers/monroy6.html (December 2004/January 2005)

On Biblical Norms and George W. Bush
by J. Douglas Allen-Taylor (The Berkeley Daily Planet)
http://www.berkeleydaily.org/text/article.cfm?issue=11-19-04&storyID=20132 (November 19, 2004)

Review: The Passion of the Christ
by Emily Monroy (The Multiracial Activist)
https://www.multiracial.com/readers/monroy4.html (July/August 2004)

We are one in the spirit
by Andrea Wright (The Beaumont Enterprise)
http://www.southeasttexaslive.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=8317003&BRD=2287&PAG=461&dept_id=512588&rfi=8 (June 14, 2003)

Some blacks say Mormon Church must address racism
by Debbie Hummel (The Boston Globe)
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/157/nation/Some_blacks_say_Mormon_Church_must_address_racism+.shtml (June 6, 2003)

A Personal Commentary on Race, History, and Spirituality
by Michael J. Dahl (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/dahl.html (March/April 2002)

Yellow Fever and the AME Churches
by Frank W. Sweet (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://interracialvoice.com/sweet5.html (January/February 2002)

Yachad b’Shalom ~ Together in Peace
by Shira-Davida Goldberg-Rathell (The Multiracial Activist)
https://www.multiracial.com/readers/goldberg-rathell.html (December 2001/January 2002)

Breaking The Color Line
by Rivka Gewirtz (The Jewish Week)
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=5334 (November 9, 2001)

The “Black” Intelligentsia and that Taliban Comment
by Charles Michael Byrd (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://interracialvoice.com/editor31.html (November/December 2001)

Religion is Not the Enemy: Don’t look at bin Laden and see Islam.
by David F. Forte (National Review)
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-forte101901.shtml (October 19, 2001)

It’s okay to call this black man ‘nutso’
by Mark Steyn (National Post)
http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/columnists/story.html?f=/stories/20010807/638103.html (August 7, 2001)

Church leaders join to cast out the demons of racism
by Linda Leicht (The Springfield News-Leader)
http://www.springfieldnews-leader.com/webextra/r072901e.html (July 16, 2001)

Jewish With a Korean Face
by Adam Rosen (Jinn Magazine)
http://www.pacificnews.org/jinn/stories/6.25/001221-jewish.html (December 21, 2000)

Letters: We Are All Mixed Race
by Bill Taylor (The Birmingham News)
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/Oct2000/30-e289792b.html (October 30, 2000)

Time to put interracial ban to rest
by Robert Buchanan (The Mobile Register)
http://www.al.com/columnists/mobile/rbuchanan/09112000-a375317a.html (September 11, 2000)

Science, Southern Style
by David N. Livingstone (ChristianityToday.com)
http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2000/005/5.14.html (September/October 2000)

“Good Intentions”
by Eleanora Hill (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.webcom.com/~intvoice/eleanora5.html (September/October 2000)

Race, Religion and Free Speech
by James A. Landrith, Jr. (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.webcom.com/~intvoice/landrith3.html (September/October 2000)

Religion and “Race”-Consciousness
by Steve and Ruth White (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.webcom.com/~intvoice/steveruth.html (September/October 2000)

Books & Culture Corner: In Praise of Miscegenation
by John Wilson (ChristianityToday.com)
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2000/133/13.0.html (August 14, 2000)

Interracial couple finds a pastor
 (Akron Beacon Journal/Associated Press)
http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/docs/006460.htm (July 17, 2000)

Wedding bells ring for interracial couple
by Rita Price (The Columbus Dispatch)
http://www.dispatch.com/news/newsfea00/jul00/351017.html (July 16, 2000)

Ohio pastor bans interracial wedding
 (Philadelphia Daily News/Associated Press)
http://www.phillynews.com/content/daily_news/2000/07/11/national/NOWD11.htm (July 11, 2000)

Pastor Bars Interracial Marriage
 (The Washington Post/Associated Press)
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/states/al/A15603-2000Jul10.html (July 10, 2000)

Pastor shuts door on interracial couple
by Dennis M. Mahoney (The Columbus Dispatch)
http://www.dispatch.com/news/newsfea00/jul00/341709.html (July 8, 2000)

Testing the Faithful
by Kevin Sack (The New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/featured_articles/000605monday.2.html (June 4, 2000)

Religion Web Site of the Week: The Multiracial Activist
by Tim Funk (Fort Worth Star Telegram)
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/doc/1047/1:RELIGION24/1:RELIGION240313100.html (March 13, 2000)

Kein Platz f r Rassensch nder: Eine christliche Universit t” im amerikanischen Wahlkampf
by Armin Himmelrath (S ddeutsche Zeitung)
http://www.szarchiv.de/REGIS_A10103512%3Binternal&action%3Dbody.action (March 7, 2000)

Religion Website of the Week: Multiracial.com
 (Kentucky Herald-Leader)
http://www.kentuckyconnect.com/heraldleader/news/030400/faithdocs/offerings04.htm (March 4, 2000)

Religion Web site of the Week
by Tim Funk (The Charlotte Observer)
http://www.timesnews.net/index.cgi?CONTEXT=story&BISKIT=9481394776296&id=28640&category=107 (March 1, 2000)

False prophet
by Debra Dickerson (Salon)
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/01/06/muhammad/print.html (January 6, 2000)

A Church of the Rainbow
by Jason Ukman (The Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/99/11/st111812.html (November 18, 1999)

Devoutly dividing us
by Phillip W.D. Martin (The Boston Globe)
http://members.aol.com/ebonylvory/dividingus.html (November 7, 1999)

Tolerant Baha’is battle misconceptions
by Judy Tarjanyi (The Toledo Blade)
http://www.toledoblade.com/editorial/religion/9k06baha.htm (November 6, 1999)

Charismatic Christians try to heal racial divide
by Liz Szabo (The Virginian-Pilot)
http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw0929rac.html (September 29, 1999)

Inter-racial marriage: is it Biblical?
by Ken Ham (Answers in Genesis Ministries Internationsl)
http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs/4119.asp (June/August 1999)

All God’s Children
by Jon Bowen (Salon Magazine)
http://www.salonmagazine.com/books/it/1999/05/14/baptist/ (May 14, 1999)

Bob Jones University’s Interracial Ban Mentioned On Politically Incorrect
(Politically Incorrect)
http://abc.go.com/pi/forum/xscripts/19990505.html (May 5, 1999)

 Interview: James Landrith of The Multiracial Activist and wife Cheryl Gamble-Landrith on Morning Edition
by Philip Martin (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/19990415.me.03.ram (April 15, 1999)

Churches join with common mission
by Margaret Moffett Bank (Greensboro News and Record)
http://www.greensboro.com/nronline/news/marriage22.htm (March 21, 1999)

Sermons on Islam Anger Black Muslims
by Teresa Watanabe (Los Angeles Times)
http://www.latimes.com/excite/990311/t000022134.html (March 11, 1999)

Christian group urges united fight against racism
by Bob Keeler (Seattle Times)
http://www.seattletimes.com/news/nation-world/html98/chur_012599.html (January 25, 1999)

How about interracial marriages?
(Bible Questions)
http://www.biblequestions.org/Archives/BQ120298.htm(December 2, 1998)

Churchgoing hypocrites grumble about interracial dating
by Ken Garfield (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
http://www.startext.net/news/doc/1047/1:RELIGION52/1:RELIGION52111298.html (November 12, 1998)

Letter to James Landrith Regarding Application for Admission to Bob Jones University
by Paul Achterberg (Bob Jones University)
https://www.multiracial.com/letters/bjuapplication.html (October 20, 1998)

Flock of many colors
by David Crumm (Detroit Free Press)
http://www.freep.com/news/religion/qqa13.htm (September 13, 1998)

Letter to James Landrith Regarding Bob Jones University’s Ban on Interracial Dating
by Jonathan Pait (Bob Jones University)
https://www.multiracial.com/letters/bobjonesuniversity.html (August 31, 1998)

Answering the Charge of Racism
by David Patton (Dake Publishing)
http://www.trdigital.com/dake/position.html (May 1998)

Bulletin Insert – Interracial Marriage
by Hoyt W. Allen, Jr. (KYOWVA Evangelistic Association)
http://www.zoomnet.net/~kyowva/bbacks/interacial.htm (March 1998)

Farrakhan Meets the Press
(The Final Call)
http://www.finalcall.com/national/mlf-mtp5-13-97.html (May 20, 1997)

Mixed Messages: Getting Personal About Interracial Marriage
by Barbara Pement (Cornerstone)
http://www.cornerstonemag.com/archives/html/csm1114a.htm (May 9, 1997)

Interracial Marriage and the Bible
by Jacob Faturechi
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~jacobf/song.html (March 5, 1997)

Al Hajj Malik El-Shabazz: Malcolm X
(The Institute of Islamic Information and Education)
http://www.utexas.edu/students/msa/islam/malcolmx.html (July 22, 1996)

What a message to send as Easter Sunday nears
by Joe Murray (The Standard-Times)
http://www.s-t.com/daily/04-96/04-03-96/1aracism.htm (April 3, 1996)

Church refuses to marry biracial couple
(The Associated Press)
http://www.thonline.com/th/news/1996/th0404/stories/5738.htm (April 4, 1996)

Biracial baby can remain in family plots
(Flambeau News)
http://www.floridaflambeau.com/Internet%20Back%20issues/032896/news4.html (March 28, 1996)

Race and Interracial Marriage: A Biblical Survey and Perspective
by Thomas M. Brown, Jr. (Creation Social Science & Humanities Quarterly)
http://www.creationism.org/csshs/v07n1p05.htm (Volume VII, No. 1)

Scott Ross, “Left-Wing Jesus Freak”
by The Blacklisted Journalist Al Aronowitz (Streets of the World)
http://www.cbnworldreach.org/sow/scottross/jesus_freak.html (1995)

The Vision of Racial Unity: America’s Most Challenging Issue
(National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of the United States)
http://www.atlantabahai.org/vision.htm

Islam, Mormans and Racism: A Comparison
by Tarik Abdul-Rahman
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Spa/3879/Mormon.html

What does the Bible say about Interracial Marriages?
by Tom Brown
http://www.tombrown.org/whatinterrac.htm

What the Bible Says About Interracial Dating
by Todd Strandberg
http://www.tilc.com/~tentoni/interracial.htm

Interracial Marriage
by W. John Walsh (All About Mormons)
http://mormons.org/basic/family/marriage/interracial.htm

Chapter 10: Changing The Anti-Black Doctrine
by Jerald and Sandra Tanner (The Changing World of Mormonism)
http://www.xmission.com/~country/chngwrld/chap10.htm

The Muslim Program: Point Ten – Interracial Marriage and Race-Mixing Prohibition
(Nation of Islam)
http://www.noi.org/program.html