From “It’s Just Words” to Just Words: Speech Ethics in the Time of Trump
When we talk in public, “what is the society we are trying to create?”
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To Be Christian, Intellectual and Black: A Response to Vincent Lloyd
Continuing the conversation on the role and reception of black Christian intellectuals in this country.
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To Be Queer, Gifted, and Black: A Conversation with Theologian Pamela Lightsey
“When we talk about Black Lives Matter, we’re talking about all black lives.”
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To Pray or to Protest? The Both/And-ness of Black Christianity
I want to argue that we need to have a more expansive understanding of black religious identities, an understanding that Womanist Theologians have already pushed us toward, an understanding that does not compartmentalize black religious thought and responses into shallow categories like “right/conservative/prayerful” and “left/academic/protester”; categories that are too small, too static, and too constricting for us to comprehend the diversity of black religious lives and black political activity.
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AIDS in South Africa: Women, the Church, and Global Indifference
The AIDS epidemic is a justice issue, not a moral one, theologian Beverley Haddad explains—in the face of overwhelming challenges, there is no room for regressive moralizing from religious leaders.
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