‘The White Privileged Man’s Burden’: If Jesus Was White Who Are We to Question the ‘Privilege’ That Came With it?
Religious institutions across America are seeking out anti-racist professionals in a long overdue attempt to…
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Conservative Evangelical Eric Metaxas, Doing Twitter Theology, Claims ‘Jesus Was White’
When Eric Metaxas tweeted that “Jesus was white” on Monday the small corner of Twitter…
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Tearing Down Evangelical Icons: Why Penn’s Decision to Remove George Whitefield Statue May Be Good for American Evangelicalism
It’s a curious fact of history that a statue of John Wesley stands prominently ensconced…
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Before We Scold DeSean Jackson and Others For Anti-Semitism We Need To Talk About ‘Chosenness’
Over the past week, two prominent African-American celebrities have been condemned for promoting anti-Semitism because…
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No “Cancel Culture” on the Right: How Conservative Christians Protect the Powerful
This week, Harper’s Magazine set off a firestorm by publishing “A Letter on Justice and…
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State Director of Christian Right Legislative Group, ‘Project Blitz,’ Calls for Lynching of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Updated)
UPDATE, July 27, 2020: Rev. Dale Witherington recently returned to the scene of his Facebook…
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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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It’s the Catholic Bishops, Not Those Who Toppled Junipero Serra Statues, Who Have Failed the Test of History
Apologies are not enough. As protesters have taken to the streets throughout the world in…
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On the Erasure of Whiteness in Responses to Convicted Pedophile Jan Joosten, a White Man
In her now classic paper titled White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo writes about the many ways…
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Hey Hey, Ho Ho White Jesus Has to Go… But The Issue is More Complicated Than You Think
As a child growing up in Louisville, Kentucky in the late 1970s a curious painting…
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