The Left Behind: Why Are White American Christians So Racist?
Robert Jones, founder of the Public Religion Research Institute, has been doing the op-ed thing…
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Racism and Anti-Semitism Are Not Intrusions of a Dark Past Into Our Present
We add to the power of racism and anti-Semitism rather than resist them when we fail to acknowledge that the past lives through us.
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Busting a Myth of Evangelical Glory Days … and More in White Supremacy Quiz
Last week, Justice Not Jails surveyed its subscribers to gauge their familiarity with the history…
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To Fight White Supremacy We Must Resist Essentialism: The Author Responds
In February of this year, I wrote on RD that Fox News journalist Caleb Parke…
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RD Response to Fox Crit of White Supremacy in Yoga Engages in Victim Blaming
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing…
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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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Fox News Controversy on Yoga and White Supremacy Reveals Problem of Yoga Discussion
A recent Fox News headline, “Americans who Practice Yoga Contribute to White Supremacy, Michigan State…
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Time to Reject the “We’re All Sinners” Defense of Religious Conservatives
Nobody’s perfect. “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” Paul wrote…
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Public Shrines to Treason: Charlottesville and the Cult of Confederate Memorialization
Just as no American, after Charlottesville, can doubt that the current US president remains deferential to an extremist white supremacist base that rallies in his name, so too no American can pretend Confederate memorials don’t serve as public shrines to a treasonous worldview
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The Southern Baptists’ “All Lives Matter” Approach to Racial Reconciliation Is Spiritual Malpractice
When the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting “went off the rails” last month following the…
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