“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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#TakeAKnee: Race and Religious Violence at the Heart of Trump Attacks on Kaepernick/NFL
Thinking about the place of violence in American civil religion helps solve a perplexing theme in the debate over professional athletes’ protests.
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Charged with Impiety: When Black Bodies Defy Tradition
When Black athletes like Gabrielle Douglas fail to be model Olympians and model players, they become treasonous.
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#WhiteChurchQuiet: Anything but Outrage Is Complicity
Why is it always “courageous” to stand with Black people?
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How Protesting Black Bodies are Imagined as a Threat to National Pride
Last night, Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman declined to take questions during a press conference,…
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The “Good Guy With a Gun” Myth
On the windy bluffs of Weehawken, New Jersey, overlooking Manhattan, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr…
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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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The Fire This Time
I know. You want me to say something profound, the hard thing. You want me to say something passionate, something to rally you, something to make you feel like there is hope, and that we’re going to change. But that’s not what this piece is about.
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The Problem We All Live With: Bearing Witness, But Never Finding Justice
We do not love ourselves. We have become cavalier with each other’s lives and we,…
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#BlackLivesMatterStill: We Cannot Let Anyone Else Define Our Movement
Words are insufficient. Words—like horror, atrocity and domestic terrorism—are inadequate. Words—like sin, evil and blasphemy—are…
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