The True Meaning of ‘Law and Order’ Became Painfully Clear on January 6
“Be there, will be wild!” Trump tweeted at his supporters on December 19, thousands of…
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White Supremacy Erases Its Violence: The Predictable Blaming of Antifa
Within hours of the storming of the Capitol on January 6, the Republican House Rep…
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Updated: My Work on Confederate Monuments Leaves This Christian Ethicist Distrustful of Calls for Reconciliation and Healing
UPDATE 10:05 p.m. ET January 6: Hours after this essay was published, Trump supporters breached…
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Forced Cremation of Covid Dead in Sri Lanka Further Marginalizes Muslim Community
Baby Shaayiq Faz was just 20 days old when he died. He was the youngest…
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Why America’s Whitewashed Thanksgiving Needs to Go: A Short Study in the Power of White Christian Mythmaking
Readers of RD don’t need to be told that the image of “The First Thanksgiving”…
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Record Numbers Voted for More Death and More Racism; Can We Really Just Come Together as a Nation?
In July I wrote in these pages about the necropolitics revealed by the actions of…
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In the Story of the New Testament We Are the Romans—No Matter Who Wins the Election
A number of years back, I heard something that changed my whole perspective on the…
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Pope Francis Praised for ‘Civil Unions’ Comment, But Justice Begins at Home—In the Vatican
Theology, “the queen of the sciences” as it’s been known since the Middle Ages, is…
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Survival of the CrossFittest: After a Schism Over Racism Can the Fitness Empire Shed its Culture of Whiteness?
This weekend, Oct. 23-25th, marks the end of the 2020 CrossFit Games season, with ten…
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Keepers of History or Dangerous Idols: The Case Against Statues From an Unlikely Source
High above the nine living justices of the Supreme Court, carved atop the marble columns…
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