Jeremy Fuzy

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In Copenhagen, Denmark, there’s a monument to a Black woman who led a labor uprising nearly 5,000 miles away. Her name is Mary Thomas, though she was often called “Queen Mary.”She was born in Antigua in 1848, a bit over a decade after the British, who controlled that Caribbean island, had abolished slavery in their empire. Around the time of her birth, the Danish government decided to end slavery in its colonies.

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The Trump administration often speaks of protecting Christians from discrimination worldwide. But that concern seems to vanish when Israel is involved — even with a Baptist pastor serving as the U.S. ambassador to Israel. Reverend Hanna Massad, who was born in Gaza and has been an American citizen since 2003, served for 12 years as the pastor of Gaza Baptist Church.

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BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, never straying far from their copies of “The Sacred Harp” and its music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares, and diamonds. In four-part harmony, they sing together for hours, carrying on a more than 180-year-old American folk tradition that is as much about the community as it is the music.

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İZNIK, Turkey (RNS) — For Christian leaders across the world and across denominations, the anniversary of the first Council of Nicaea is providing an opportunity for introspection and, potentially, the beginning of further dialogue. Seventeen hundred years ago — from May through July 325 — more than 200 bishops of early Christian churches gathered in the town of Nicaea, then in the Roman province of Bithynia (now İznik, Turkey), to determine a unified theology.

1 week ago | wordandway.org | Jeremy Fuzy |Jeremy Füzy

Imagine democracy lies in a corner suite of the ICU at Johns Hopkins Medical Center. The chart staring at us from the computer screen shows the body wounded, in a coma, and with low blood pressure. The diagnosis is not promising. Whether or not democracy will recover is up for grabs.