WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
Pearl River These days the phrase “progressive Christianity” sounds like a contradiction in terms, opposites attracting in the same sentence or something like that, or perhaps the last of a dying breed. Not so, says Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons, a religious activist, organizer, and author of Just Faith: Reclaiming Progressive Christianity, who I spoke to at length …
Pearl River This whole thing about religious opposition to the stay-at-home orders and the social distancing can sometimes seem a head scratcher. In central Louisiana a minister already noted for refusing to call postponement of church services was arrested for attempted assault, which he admitted, after he tried to back a church bus over a …
Pearl River For some years when he was still going to the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church where he was raised, and where he raised my brother and me, my dad would act as an usher at the Sunrise Service on Easter along Lake Ponchartrain near the seawall. Several times I went with him. I liked …
Little Rock Talking to someone yesterday who wanted to do a series of reports for KABF community radio about religion, caught me up short and forced me to actually think for a minute about the strange and interesting stirrings within religious denominations that might just indicate that in the face of declining membership, some of them …