‘Don’t Call Me Black No More, I’m an Israelite’: Kendrick Lamar, Black Hebrew Religion, and Black Suffering
Kendrick Lamar’s fourth album, Damn, (stylized “DAMN”) has been number one on the Billboard charts for the…
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Andrew Sullivan Really Took This Opportunity to Misread Intersectionality?
“Here’s the latest in the assault on liberal democracy,” writes Andrew Sullivan, as he decries…
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#WhiteChurchQuiet: Anything but Outrage Is Complicity
Why is it always “courageous” to stand with Black people?
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From Kneel-Ins to the Condemnation of “Racial Sin”: The Meaning of the PCA’s “Overture on Pursuing Racial Reconciliation”
Over the last 20 years, major American denominations, particularly those with southern origins (such as…
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Black Women and the Sacred: With “Lemonade,” Beyoncé Takes Us to Church
I walked away after seeing Beyoncé’s hour-long visual album, “Lemonade,” with the profound sense that…
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Why Jason Collins’ Faith is Ignored… And Tebow’s Isn’t
The faith of Jason Collins, who recently came out as the first gay athlete in a major American sport, doesn’t fit the model of culture war conflicts the media expects and the religious right demands of its spokespeople.
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The Myth of ‘Voodoo’: A Caribbean American Response to Representations of Haiti
Notwithstanding Haiti’s Christian character, the Haitian personality, if there is one, has been nurtured by a Vodou civilization that any responsible treatment of the subject must disentangle from the Western world’s manufactured “voodoo” culture.
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