Extended Interviews

I haven’t seen this level of activity and energy in all my 34 years in ministry in North Carolina. There’s a real energy in North Carolina among people of faith, and a real cohesion [...]

August 5, 2013 marks the first anniversary of the bloody massacre at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek. A White supremacist gunman killed six and wounded five priests and worshippers who [...]

We have forgotten that this is about families. Immigration reform is about families. It’s not about numbers; it’s about families. – Bishop Minerva Carcaño On Thursday, July [...]

[David Lane] is out to criminalize abortion; the advance of LGBT equality is another thing that he sees as an abomination and against God’s law… [and] this notion of pushing religion [...]

I really believe that to have a full impression of Jesus, both as Christ as a man, you must know about the world that gave shape to him – the world out of which he arose. – Reza Aslan [...]

Everybody who thinks that it doesn’t apply to them needs to wait a minute, because if it doesn’t apply to you yet – it will. – Rev. Rosemary Bray McNatt I put a lot into [...]

We’ve got to use this moment of pain to be more determined to fight against this senseless, constant perpetuation of violence and destruction of lives. – Rev. William Barber II After [...]

We have been accused of following the culture, rather than being a gadfly to the culture. And what I say in response to that is: “You know, what if God is working in the culture?” [...]

You don’t resist consciousness, nor do you turn it around. Nobody would contemplate re-segregating; no one would contemplate taking the vote away from women. Nobody will contemplate forcing [...]

The idea that I kept rolling over in my brain was, ‘How could I go through this much study and this much work in theology, and I don’t believe any of it. I’m an Atheist.’ [...]