Learning Resistance and Courage From Ida B. Wells
The greatest gift that studying Wells has brought to my life is freedom from fear.
An Imaginative Incarnation: The Carnival de Resistance
Everyone loves a story. And scientists have finally caught up with Jesus.
#PoorPeoplesCampaign: 40 Days of Direct Action
Many people have been organizing and working to introduce an agenda that neither party has been talking about.
Wakanda Forever: Cultivating Moral Imagination & Beloved Community
What if the theologies of resistance that we cultivate in this moment were rooted in the possibility of Wakanda?
As We Enter Black History Month, ‘Do Not De-Radicalize King’
In times such as this, we need not celebration and commemoration of men and women who lived valiantly, but we need to be disturbed and re-energized; not by the “safe” King, created by certain persons to tone down his radical legacy, but we need the radical King, the radical, Hamer, and the radical Rustin.
The Power and the Threat of Kneeling: Colin Kaepernick
You want Kaepernick to go away, to stand up and salute the flag, and shut up because we can tolerate abuse of other human beings but we cannot tolerate being disrupted when we want to pretend that everything is OK.
Keep Standing Up for Health Care: It’s Personal
Someone else’s mom needs cancer medicine. Someone else’s dad has diabetes. Someone’s baby will die without health care.
We Cannot Turn Back Now: Call to Action for Healthcare
The fight for healthcare in our nation today is a fight for the soul of America. We cannot turn back now.
The Holy Tradition of Going to Jail for Jesus
There are a lot of ways to change the world. Going to jail isn’t the only way to do it. But it is one way.
Now Is The Time For Prophetic Moral Action
It’s time for those of us who are called to proclaim and embody God’s Word to put on our clerical robes, take up our holy books, and speak truth in the public square.