Dawn Araujo-Hawkins

Letta Cartlidge created a group for missionary kids who’d attended her boarding school in Jos, Nigeria. The stories of abuse poured in.

Delores Williams, one of the founders of womanist theology, died on November 17 at the age of 88. Williams, a Presbyterian, taught theology at Union Theological Seminary for 13 years until her retirement in 2004. Before that, she taught at the historically Black Fisk University in Nashville. In 1993, Williams published her seminal book Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk, which compares the plight of Black women in the United States to that of Hagar in the Bible—forced…

A new movie about legendary gospel singer Mahalia Jackson is now streaming on Hulu. Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story stars Grammy Award-winning jazz and R&B artist Ledisi and covers five decades of Jackson’s life—highlighting both her personal faith and her more public role in the civil rights movement. Jackson, who would go on to perform at Carnegie Hall, President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, and at Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral, first started singing at a Baptist church in New Orl…

Peter Mageto has been elected vice chancellor of Africa University, the Pan-African, United Methodist–affiliated school in Zimbabwe. A Kenyan, Mageto will be the first non-Zimbabwean to lead the university. Mageto, who was selected from among...

Clifton Daniel III, dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, has an­nounced his resignation, effective June 30, after five years of leadership. According to his resignation letter, Dan­iel’s appointment was always...

It began as a slow burn. During the pandemic, it picked up speed.

Menstruation supplies are expensive—and stigmatized. So many people just go without.

Bryan Massingale accepted the Isaac Hecker Award for Social Justice from the Paulist Center on November 13. Mas­sin­gale, a Catholic priest and theological ethicist, was given the award for his work toward justice and inclusion for Black and LGBTQ...

Religions for Peace’s deputy secretary general, Kyo­ichi Sugino, has resigned his position to take on the role of president of Gakurin Seminary, a lay Buddhist training institution in Tokyo. Sugino served in leadership at Religions for Peace for...

Thema Bryant-Davis, an ordained elder in the African Methodist Epis­co­pal Church, has been elected as the 2023 president of the American Psy­cho­logical Associa­tion. Bryant-Davis currently directs the Culture and Trauma Research Lab at...