Is America Willing to Be Freed from Its Demons?
There is a poignant story in the gospel of Mark where Jesus encounters a young…
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Dylann Roof Was Wrong: The Race War Isn’t Coming, It’s Here
Not everyone has achieved their whiteness. Some cannot achieve it. Others do not want to attain it, and some live in constant frustration in their failure to secure it.
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After Ferguson: America Must Abandon “Sick Christianity” at Ease With Violence
From its Christian and colonial beginnings, America has always trafficked in the fear of black people.
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Christianity’s Greatest Counterfeit
Like it or not, the Republicans in Congress are now a kind of congregation, a reality of church, a particular church, but still a church. Inescapably, now they present a Christianity in total power.
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What Does it Mean to Call “God” a White Racist?
American Christians must take on the difficult work of understanding how whiteness has been woven like a cancer into their Christianity.
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Becoming the Common: Why I Got Arrested in North Carolina
As a theologian—or as I like to say, a Christian intellectual—there comes a point when the words you write crowd into the life you live and demand that you reorganize your space or you will live in a mess. My sense is that many of us are experiencing a similar overcrowding. A world controlled by banking interests, multinational corporations, and a very powerful extremely wealthy few is an intolerable situation, and governments that love them and protect them more than the people will have to be reminded that some of us will make demands in the name of our God.
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