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Willie Dwayne Francois

Willie Dwayne Francois III serves as Senior Pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church in Pleasantville, New Jersey (Atlantic City). New York Theological Seminary appointed him as Assistant Professor of Liberation Theology and Director of the Master of Professional Studies Program at Sing Sing and Bedford Hills Correctional Facilities. He is the author of Silencing White Noise: Six Practices to Overcome our Inaction on Race (2022).

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Religion Dispatches
Americans of conscience are exhausted by law-and-order grief—a chronic remorse and lamentation emanating from police violence visited upon unprotected peoples. The storied American tradition of anti…
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Religion Dispatches
Millions of taxpayers, particularly those fortunate enough to not accrue education debt and those who diligently paid off their debts, reject the idea of taking on the debt of people who consciously entered college with this burden. But structural and moral crises like this one require a legislative approach that no household savings plan or practice offers.
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Religion Dispatches
The Muslim ban masqueraded as a travel ban dramatizes the perpetual conflict between the essential America and the existential America.
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