How U.S. Conservatives Conjured the Jesus of Their Dreams
It seems that when Donald Trump and his Republican enablers are able to seat a…
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And the Violent Bear It Away? Disciplined Nonviolence and the Coming Election Emergency
A few weeks back I reached out to around 60 friends and colleagues whom I’ve…
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The Revelation of Kurt Andersen: With ‘Evil Geniuses’ a Media Mandarin Discovers Plutocracy
When I showed up at New York’s Judson Church in 1994 at least some of…
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The Non-Mask of the Red Death: A Deadly Necropolitics Hits Home
The shade of Edgar Allen Poe will perhaps forgive me for misappropriating the title of…
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Corporation as ‘Citizen’ is the Next Anti-Black, Anti-Democratic Model that Needs to be Torn Down
When Claudia Rankine was asked by The Guardian why she decided to give the title…
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The Economy is Racism: Ending Race-Based Economic Violence is the Real Challenge of This Moment
Please feel free to ignore the economists and pundits who like to say that Wall…
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Hope & Change in a Racist Nation: A Necessary Disillusion
I now live in a tiny state whose motto is “Hope.” When the pandemic struck,…
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‘We’re all in this together’: The Perils of Kumbaya Rhetoric
Talk is cheap, and sentimental talk cheapens public discourse in dangerous ways at a time…
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‘We Are Not the Country We Think We Are’; A Crucial Point That Faith-Lite Leaders Too Often Miss
Caring and sharing: that’s the theme of 99% of the faith community response to the…
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COVID-19 is Concentrating Wealth Even Further; Can we Talk About the Surplus of Powerlessness in the Faith Community?
With the Sanders candidacy now over—and with thanks to the NYT’s Elizabeth Breunig for her…
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