Must We Burn Something to Get Attention?: 50 Years After the Catonsville Nine
Fifty years ago today, the Catonsville Nine burned draft files at the local draft board…
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With James Cone’s Death Comes the Death of Black Theology
With James Cone’s death, comes the death of Black theology. This statement is hyperbolic in…
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While the socio-political, economic, and cultural climate motivating the work has shifted—the fundamental and death-dealing disregard for black life has remained unaltered.
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“Tell Me What You Believe About Ferguson, and I’ll Tell You What You Believe About God”: A Missouri Pilgrimage
Three years post-uprising, the community still struggles to be seen.
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The Revolution Will Not Be Fetishized: Taking Resistance Beyond the Spiritual Industrial Complex
There is a difference between gestural subversion and collective resistance.
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A Solstice Devotional for the Faithless in Trump’s America
My prayer for 2017, then, is simple: I pray that we, the people, live up to the brave and beautiful example the rebels, the resisters, and the agitators have set for us.
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Why So Many American Christians Don’t Understand Protest
We would do well to remember that our good news first came as an act of divine protest in the body of a poor, brown baby born in a barn.
Read More#HijabiLivesMatter: The Burkini Ban, Black Hair and the Meaning of “Natural”
A woman’s bare head in France is no more “neutral” than white skin in the U.S.
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I Met God, She’s Black: An Exhibit Makes the Black Female Body a Temple
The moment I entered the Black Woman is God exhibit in San Francisco’s SOMArts gallery,…
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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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