American Jesus, Stay Away from Me
The American Jesus is merely “me.”
Let’s Not Ask Botham Jean’s Family to Choose Forgiveness over Justice
We live in a world where black lives are too easily extinguished and white lives are too easily excused.
What My ‘Brown’ Children are Teaching Me During Black History Month
What I found was a revelation in plain sight.
Parenting As Activism
My greatest contribution was probably the picture of me, leaning over my little child to speak into the microphone, with the legislator who had proposed the bill scowling off to the side.
I had been standing...
The Critical Inaction of White Moderates
One of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s most well-known works is his penned Letter from A Birmingham Jail. His mastery of classical thought and application to the world is remarkable, but what makes his work s...
As Evangelicals Win with Trump, Little ‘Good News’ Is Left in the Religious Right
Trumpism is now business as usual for white evangelicalism.
We Are Not Meant to Be Silent
God has given us a voice to share truth and to speak love into a world where injustice is rampant.
Breaking the Bonds of White Silence
When it is said that white silence is violence, it is not hyperbole.
How American Christians Can Break Free from ‘Slaveholder Religion’
I don’t know how to explain Trumpvangelicals apart from white Christianity’s long history of justifying and defending white supremacy. How else do you reconcile “America first” with “the last shall be first”?