Trump’s Bibles and Sneakers Campaigns Tell an Old Story About the Role of Race in Christian Nationalism
In late June, national news outlets reported that former President Trump had received the largest…
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What Did Kyrie Say That Was So Wrong? When Black Antisemitism Meets White Jewish Privilege
So, let’s start with a joke. A Black nationalist female rabbi, a Black male womanist…
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We’ve Finally Begun to Confront White Christian Nationalism; But What About Its Source Text?
As the Select Committee on the January 6th Insurrection is now investigating the terrorist attack…
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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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In a Powerful Statement Black Presidents and Deans Say: No More Stolen Black Lives!
On Monday, I and a group of womanist Presidents and Deans, decided that we would…
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You’re Using It Wrong: Rachel Held Evans Returns to the Bible
One critic was like, “Rachel Held Evans bases her Biblical interpretation on all the feels”… So I took a picture of my endnotes, which are lengthy, and sent them to him with the note, “All the feels, page 1,” “All the feels, page 2″…
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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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The Book of Diana: Wonder Woman as Theological Text
What audiences learn by the end of the film is that evil cannot be located in a single demigod, villain or agent.
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Religion as a Front for Tyranny: A Roundtable on the Timeliness of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”
Are we worse off than when “The Handmaid’s Tale” was first published?
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