R3 Celebrates Three Years

Happy Anniversary to us and thank you for helping us usher in two years of blogging! When we launched our blog on October 15, 2011, we wanted to highlight some of the best work that examined the nexus between Rhetoric Race and Religion and with over 2000 posts and over 503,000 page views, we believe we have.

During this past year, we continued with our much talked about Rhetoric Race and Religion “Readers.” We did Readers on the Renisha McBride tragedy and the trial of her killer, Theodore Wafer. We followed Jordan Davis’ killer, Michael Dunn with two readers, one during the trial and responses after the trial. However, by far our most popular Reader was the one we did on Donald Sterling.  Moreover, along with linking and sharing other articles via our blog, we celebrated and highlighted the work of our own contributors. Through this blog, the world met our eclectic group of scholars, community activists, pastors, preachers, and teachers. We again thank them for their contributions and support of the blog.

We are excited about our fourth year and we want to build on this momentum. While we look to continue the R3 Readers and more critical commentary from our contributors, we seek to do much more. As we dream and discern what is next for us, we ask that you support us by sharing our blog and posts with your friends and contacts via social media. If you blog with us, we ask that you share your posts and the posts of other R3 bloggers. Finally, we ask you to comment on posts as well.

As editor, this blog continues to take up more time that I originally thought, but I am not complaining. I enjoy the work, the dialogue, and the feedback. Serving as editor has allowed me to meet wonderful people, read good articles and make new friends. I invite you to join us on Facebook and/or Twitter @examinereligion. You can follow me personally on Twitter @aejohnsonphd. Again, we thank you for your support and please keep reading and sharing.

Andre E. Johnson
Editor