Fran Quigley
Contributor
July 31, 2020
Three Cheers for Socialism
This week’s post is a snippet and link to a powerful “Three Cheers for Socialism” article by the noted religion scholar and DSA member David Bentley Hart. The article ran in Commonweal in February, and we’ve long planned to share a snippet and link to it on our blog. (You may have noticed a few events have
July 23, 2020
Seven Signs You May Be a Religious Socialist
This guide, written by Fran Quigley, can be shared with friends and family who share our social and religious values but may not yet identify as socialists. “Socialists cannot win without reaching the millions of working people who belong to various churches of the country." - George Washington Woodbey
July 10, 2020
Faith, Abolition, and Socialism Online Panel & Discussion—RSVP Now!
Faith, Abolition, and Socialism is the first event in a conversation series organized by the Democratic Socialists of America’s Religion and Socialism working group. Rev.
July 3, 2020
“What to the Slave is Your 4th of July?”
Talk about speaking truth to power: In 1852, Frederick Douglass responded to an invitation by the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Association to deliver a speech for their 4th of July celebration by unleashing his legendary “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” address to an audience that included President Millard Fillmore and other politicians,
June 18, 2020
Eugene Debs and Christian Socialism
To commemorate the 102nd anniversary of Eugene V. Debs’ fateful anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio, we post below an article by RS Working Group member Fran Quigley on Debs’ close relationship with Christian socialists.
June 8, 2020
Cornel West on “America’s Moment of Reckoning”
Philosopher, theologian, activist and social critic Cornel West, who is also a Religious Socialism contributor, recently gave an interview with Democracy Now on George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter uprising.